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MEETING NOTICE October Tuesday, the 31th 7 PM Nashua, NH Inside Reviews and Information Learn to Play Guitar 1 Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 9 DataRescue II 10 Regular Features Secretary’s Report 3 Coming Events 3 Rambling On 10 The Presidents Corner 11 SNAC Application 12 SNAC HelpNet 12 October 2006 No. 325 17 HUTCHINSON STREET, NASHUA, NH 03064 SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE APPLE CORE Established April 1979 Place Stamp Here FORWARDING AND ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED MAILED FIRST CLASS TO: Visit us at: http://homepage.mac.com/applepower SNAC TIME Continued on Page 4 October Meeting GarageBand Revisited November Meeting Learn To Play Guitar: The iPlayMusic Way by Rich Kovars Learning an instrument can be hard. I know. I have been trying to teach myself guitar for a couple of years now. Much of the time I have been mired in frustration. I have found that books get uninteresting very quickly. In addition, playing an instrument is best learned with someone showing you what they are doing and you picking up the instrument and mimicking them. Books can’t provide that kind of instruction. Even the books that have accompanying DVDs have left me yearning for more. I have found the DVDs difficult to navigate and it is tough to keep track of where you are at in the instruction. When it comes to computer instruction, most of the programs leave much to be desired. Again,

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MEETING NO TICE

October Tuesday, the 31th 7 PM Nashua, NH

In sideRe views and In for ma tion

Learn to Play Guitar 1

Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 9

DataRescue II 10

Regular Features

Secretary’s Report 3

Coming Events 3

Rambling On 10

The Presidents Corner 11

SNAC Application 12

SNAC HelpNet 12

October2006

No. 325

17 HUTCHINSON STREET, NASHUA, NH 03064

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIREAPPLE CORE

Established April 1979

PlaceStampHere

FORWARDING AND ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

MAILED FIRST CLASS TO:

Visit us at: http://homepage.mac.com/applepower

SNAC TIME

Continued on Page 4

October Meeting

GarageBand Revisited

November Meeting

Learn To Play Guitar:The iPlayMusic Way

by Rich Kovars

Learning an instrument can be hard. I know. I have been trying to teach myself guitar for a couple of years now. Much of the time I have been mired in frustration. I have found that books get uninteresting very quickly. In addition, playing an instrument is best learned with someone showing you what they are doing and you picking up the instrument and mimicking them. Books can’t provide that kind of instruction.

Even the books that have accompanying DVDs have left me yearning for more. I have found the DVDs diffi cult to navigate and it is tough to keep track of where you are at in the instruction.

When it comes to computer instruction, most of the programs leave much to be desired. Again,

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...Some of the People that help make SNAC Work...

PRESIDENT Paul Bendeck 603-672-0084 [email protected]

VICE-PRESIDENT Don Lemoine [603] 889-4295 [email protected]

SECRETARY Bill Bryant [603] 882-7338 [email protected]

TREASURER Bill Bryant [603] 882-7338 [email protected]

SNAC TIME STAFF Tim Adams [603] 595-9522 [email protected] Wayne Labatte [603] 882-4500 [email protected]

SNAC ON THE INTERNET http://homepage.mac.com/applepower/ Rick Branscomb, webmaster [email protected]

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS No Interest groups active at this time!

VENDOR CONNECTIONS

User Group Ambassador Kevin McLaughlin [603] 429-4626 [email protected]

Visit our web pages at:

http://homepage.mac.com/applepower/

MEMBERSHIPS ABOUT TO EXPIRE

None this month

NEW MEMBERS & RENEWALS

Kerry & Linda Hurd

Welcome and have some fun!!

SNAC TIMEPublished monthly, by the Southern New Hamp shire Apple Core computer club as a dues sup port ed service to its members. Published using Adobe InDesign 3.0.1 and an HP DeskWriter.

Contributed articles become the property of SNAC, with publication on a space avail able basis. Au thors’ views and opinions are their own, and SNAC waives responsibility for ed i to ri al or ty po graph i cal errors herein. Re-pub li ca tion of articles orig i nat ing here in is permitted on a non-commercial basis, with both au thor and SNAC credits given.

APPLE, the APPLE LOGO, MAC & MACIN TOSH are registered trademarks of Apple Com put er, Inc. Additional company and prod uct names may be trademarks or reg is tered trademarks of the in di vid u al com pa nies and are respectfully acknowledged.

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE APPLE CORE

SNAC is a not-for-profi t, dues supported or ga ni za tion, with membership open to any one wish ing to partici-pate in our in ter est in the use and en joy ment of Apple Com put ers. Club ser vic es in clude libraries of public do main software, a web site, and this news let ter.

SNAC TIME is an independent publication not af- fi l i at ed or otherwise associated with or spon sored or sanctioned by, Apple Com put er, Inc. The opin ions, statements, po si tions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or pub lish er and are not in- tend ed to be the opin ions, statements, po si tions or views of Apple Com put er, Inc.

M e m b e rM e m b e r

MUG User Group Store

http://www.applemugstore.com/

For current username and password informa-tion email [email protected]

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October 2006 PAGE 3

Coming EventsFor 2006/2007

SNAC's Main Meetings is held at the Nashua Pub-

lic Li brary, 2 Court Street, Nashua, NH. Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of

each month at 7PM.

SNAC Meeting Schedule

July 25, 2006August 29, 2006

September 26, 2006October 31, 2006November 28, 2006December 26, 2006January 30, 2007February 27, 2007

March 27, 2007April 24, 2007May 29, 2007June 26, 2007July 31, 2007

Newsletter Article Deadline

August 18, 2006September 15, 2006

October 20, 2006November 17, 2006December 15, 2006January 19, 2007February 16, 2007

March 16, 2007April 13, 2007May 18, 2007June 15, 2007July 20, 2007Help SNAC Grow!

Bring in a Friend and Neigh bor

to the meeting!!!

Help SNAC Grow!

Bring in a Friend and Neigh bor

to the meeting!!!

Place: Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua, NH

Presided By: Paul Bendeck

This meeting was held in the NPL Theater downstairs at the Nashua Library.

Reports:Secretary’s Report - The minutes from the last meeting were approved as printed in the September 06 newsletter.

Treasurer’s Report - The Treasurer reported $1,127.46 in the checking account. $40 was received for two renewals. No payments were made. This report was accepted.

Newsletter Report - Articles for the next newsletter are due October 20th to Tim. Past issues of the newsletter are available on the ApplePower home page under the link for Newsletter Archive.

Renewals: A check was received from one new member at this meeting. New attendees introduced themselves and were invited to join us at this or the next meeting.

Video Tutorials:Christopher Breen and MacWorld Magazine have started producing monthly video tutorials about various Apple products and tips about getting the most out of them. The tutorials are called “Breen’s Bungalow” and run about 10 minutes long. These tutorials are available to Apple User Groups to show at meetings and to share with members. During the meeting this month, we watched Chris Breen explain some interesting features about the iLife applications.

Apple News:Rich Kovars discussed the latest news from Apple regarding the

new iMacs and iPods announced recently.

Problems and Discussions:The club provides and interactive session during every meeting for members, and guests too, to ask questions about any problems they might be having with any Apple computer or software product. There are usually several knowledgeable people available at every meeting to help answer these questions. Here are some of the problems discussed at the last meeting: Deleting fi les in Quicken External and Internal hard drives A discussion on Firewalls DSL fi ne print and usage Operating windows on a Mac Backup using external hard drives Safari security iChat and DSL compatibility

Remember, whenever you have a hardware or software problem with your Apple computer, a good place to start looking for information is the Links and Resources page on the ApplePower home page.

Old Business: None

New Business: None

Demo:Rich Kovars gave a slide presentation on Encrypted E-Mail. His 33 page presentation can be viewed on the ApplePower home page - Download Files - Demos - Encrypted_Email_Sep06. Rich discussed the Why’s and How’s of encryption and the two main methods, Symmetric Key Encryption and Digital Signature. Thanks Rich for another fi ne presentation.

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From page 1

they are diffi cult to navigate and it is tough to pick up where you left off in the instruction. Not to mention that most of this software is available for Windows only.

Not anymore.

I have had the pleasure of playing around with a new way to learn the guitar using a software program. Like all good Macintosh software, iPlayMusic has taken something that was mundane and institutional and made it powerful and fun.

Not only have they really thought out the interface (which is like nothing I have seen to date in guitar tutoring software) but they have also leveraged all of the great technologies that come with the Macintosh to make an incredibly powerful learning experience. And the instruction isn’t bad either.

First, let’s take a walk through the interface.

The program interface is broken into two areas, a video playback pane and a lesson pane. The video playback pane has all the controls you would expect - rewind, fast forward, play/pause.

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It also has a really unique loop function so that the lessons can automatically be looped so that your hands never have to leave the guitar.

In addition to the regular controls, iPlayMusic also has a really nice tempo control that allows you to speed up or slow down any lesson allowing you to learn at your own pace. This is a very nice feature especially when learning chord transitions.

In the bottom left corner, you will also notice two colored buttons. One for export and one labeled create. I’ll get to the functionality of these buttons in a minute.

The bottom lesson pane allows you to easily navigate the lessons by a hierarchical menu system. This allows you to quickly and easily fi nd the lessons you are interested in or where you last left off.

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If you are running Tiger, Spotlight is also built in so that you can search all of the fi les and fi nd just what you are looking for.

The lesson content is divided into four convenient sections: getting Started, Lessons, Reference and Songs.

The Getting Started area has a short informational video and a Step-by-Step Guide section. Everyone should watch the Getting Started video to get a feel for what the program can do. The Step-By-Step section includes a Getting Started Manual in PDF format with videos to accompany each section in the manual. The Getting Started manual covers topics like Holding the Guitar, Tuning and Chords.

The Lessons section contains everything you need to dive right in to playing guitar: Basics, Chords, Practice Drills, Rhythm and Riffs and techniques. The Lesson videos have a unique four paneled breakdown that shows you four different views allowing you to see just how the instructor is holding the guitar and forming the chords.

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The Reference Section contains eBook chord charts, a GarageBand Tips video and a short video on Guitar Maintenance.

The Songs section contains over twenty popular songs from many different styles to get you going. You can learn songs from Blues, Country, Folk, Kids, Reggae and Rock.

Many of the featured songs include a full song lesson that teaches you the song step by step in great detail. Each song lesson contains a Full song that includes vocals and accompaniment as well as the guitar part.

Along with the Full song each lesson has a Guitar part only video as well. This allows you to hear and learn the guitar part only.

Finally each lesson contains a Jam Track that allows you to play along karaoke style to the songs.

iPlayMusic really puts it into four wheel drive and starts out on its own.

Each Full version of the included songs also includes complete GarageBand project fi les including all vocal and instrument tracks. Giving you the GarageBand project fi les allows you to create and remix your own version of the song then exporting it to iTunes to share with your friends! How cool is that! Select a full song and click the Create button. GarageBand opens with a fully populated project. Simply plug in your guitar and have at it!

One of the hardest things to do when learning the guitar (or any instrument) is to have a steady practice schedule. iPlayMusic delivers in this department as well. You don’t have to be tethered to your Mac. You can take any of the video lessons on the road with you by clicking on the green Export button. This will export the lesson to iTunes and allows you to put the lessons on your

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5th generation iPod and take them anywhere.

I must say that I was really excited to review this software and that doesn’t happen very often. There are a couple of things I would have liked to see. It would be a really nice addition to be allowed to export the chord library to the iPod as well as the lessons and songs. This would be a big help when practicing on the road. I am not sure if it would work but it might also be nice to have the Getting Started Manual in audio book form (podcast style) to refer to as well.

iPlayMusic has great integration with GarageBand and iTunes. The lessons are easy to follow and the instruction is top notch. I think the thing that really makes iPlayMusic successful is the ease at which you can measure your progress. You can use GarageBand to record practice sessions as you learn the songs. You can also use GarageBand’s loop function to cycle through a riff that you are having particular trouble with. Now there is no excuse not to practice. Your instructor is with you in your pocket any time and anywhere to give you his undivided attention.

iPlayMusic has really left the mainstream with this software and I am not the only one who is excited by it. The software won two Best of Show awards at NAMM earlier this year. Out of the thousands of exhibitors only twenty-fi ve companies were awarded Best of Show honors. Expect more from iPlayMusic in the future.

iPlayMusic isn’t a one pony show either. They have other products targeted specifi cally to teaching children as well as other instructional products. I’ll be reviewing them in the upcoming months. In the meantime pick up that guitar, plug it into your Mac and make some music!

iPlayMusic for Machttp://www.iplaymusic.comRetail: $49.95

Rich Kovar is a member of SNAC. For re-publication information, see page 2 of this newsletter.

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Got a topic YOU would like to see shown at a meeting?Got a topic YOU would like to show us at a meeting?Let us know - otherwise it might never get done!

Automator Actions, Ultimate Productivity Action Pack

by Atomated Workfl ows, LLC

A Review By: Paul Wilson, of Wilson Design,

and a SNAC MUG Member

Anyone who has used Apples automator application that is part of Apples OS 10.4 tiger, probably has enjoyed how much of a time saver this program can be. This is true for myself as well, only I always wished that I could build workfl ows outside of apples applications, and I felt the program to be limited in this regard. As a graphic designer I spend most of my time using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress. Moreover, many of the tasks I do on a daily basis within these programs requires repetition of a series of certain commands. For example, I may need to open 20 images in Photoshop, rotate them, resize them, and then save them. This is one of the necessary tasks, that although redundant and mundane, must be done in order to create a successful design. Imagine if I could use automator to set up a workfl ow to do this for me, so I could focus on the more creative (and fun) part of the design process. Enter Automator Actions, Ultimate Productivity Action Pack by Atomated Workfl ows, LLC.

The Automator Actions, Ultimate Productivity Action Pack by Atomated Workfl ows, LLC lets you expand Apples automator to be able to work with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, QuarkXPress, as well as a host of others. It contains a ton of actions that you can mix and match to meet your required needs, and create workfl ows that will save you a lot of time. This pack of actions power lies in the fact that you can string several of these application specifi c actions together to have several different design programs working together. The actions do what you tell it to accomplish in each program, then pass the results on to the next program in the workfl ow to do its task and so on until you have the desired fi nish results. On Automated Workfl ow, LLC’s website they have a demo movie of a workfl ow that combines Quark, FileMaker Pro, and iPhoto. It is at the following link and I highly recommend viewing it, for it truly shows how impressively powerful these tools can be.

http://www.automatedworkfl ows.com/automator/movies.html

My only complaints are that I feel the Ultimate Productivity Action Pack is a little overpriced at $39.99. However, you could argue the fact that the time these actions will save you, will pay itself off in no time. I was also disappointed that two of the most commonly recurring task a designer faces in almost every project were not

included in the pack. One is the ability to convert Quark fi les to PDFs. This is something that is a time consuming chore for me that I would love to be able to automate. However it seems, according to the developer that “This is actually because Quark does not provide direct access to export documents in PDF format to AppleScript, which is the language in which my actions are developed”. So that lack of an action is no fault of the developer, but non the less a bummer. Secondly, there is no Photoshop action to convert the color mode of RGB images to CMYK. For me this is a deal breaker. Just about every image I include in a design has to go through this process in order to be used, and I was hoping it would have an action for it. The developer offered workarounds to be able to achieve the two missing actions I mentioned. However, for $39.99 I do not want to have to use workarounds. On a more positive note this company has been very receptive to my requests and may add them in the future. The company provides excellent email support, with quick response times and thorough answers to questions. The workfl ows are a Universal application which is always a plus and includes a 110 page PDF manual you can view on your mac or print out yourself.

Lastly, if you want to try these out for yourself, there are free and trial versions available for download. And, if you do not use Quark, FileMaker Pro, or the Adobe products I mentioned, there are iPhoto, Finder, Text Edit, and Preview action packs available.

http://www.automatedworkfl ows.com/automator/actions.html

Paul Wilson is a member of SNAC. For re-publication information, see page 2 of this newsletter.

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Rambling onTim Adams

A couple of members sent me email last month, inquiring about the September newsletter. Their question dealt with a blank page 5. Was it supposed to be blank? No, actually it wasn’t blank at all but for some reason it came up that way for some of you. What you missed IF you also saw a blank page was a picture of a poster done in the program getting reviewed, Comic Life. The copy of the review I received had this one page as a pdf fi le, and it didn’t want to work well with me and my system for some reason. As such, I ended up creating the newsletter with a blank page, converting the whole document to a pdf fi le, then editing this fi le within Acrobat, and inserted this one page fl ier. I was then able to save the entire document and everything appeared to be just fi ne. For some reason it wasn’t however, as I found out later.

Most of you that follow Apple, are well aware that France has recently past a law dealing with music and copy protection. When the bill was being discussed, much was written about how it was directed directly at Apple and their iPod. While one might think that this would sour Apple on the French, it apparently didn’t, as they hired a French consulting fi rm to conduct a study dealing with work productivity and monitor sizes. The results of this study show that you can be more productive working with a 30 inch monitor than working with a smaller sized one. See http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/10/11/30inch/index.php for all of the details, including a link to the published study report. While I tend to agree with the report, my one question is - did they study how tired your wrist might get moving the curser from one side of a 30 inch screen to the other versus a 17 inch screen? This study also leads one to understand why Apple released their 24 inch iMac. While not the 30 inches that the report dealt with, an all-in-one unit with that big a screen is surely going to end up on a lot of desks, replacing the older 17 and 19 inch monitors currently sitting there, connected to a tower located someplace on the fl oor, under the desk. A win for both Apple and the company doing the swap.It also leads one to speculate about a 30 inch iMac. MacWorlds coming and you heard it here fi rst. :-)

This past week, Apple released their 4th quarter fi nancial results, and while I expect that they will be mentioned at the meeting, and everybody that cares about them have already read the news, I thought I’d mentioned them also. This past quarter, Apple shipped 1,610,000 Macintosh computers, making this the largest quarter ever in the history of Apple. It compares with 1,236,000 shipped just

last quarter and is a signifi cant increase.

On the iPod front, Apple sold 8,729,000 iPods during the quarter. Not a bad fi gure at all, especially considering all of the predictions I’ve read the past few months saying the iPod has reached it’s sales peak and sales will be declining from here on out. That number represents a 35% increase of this same quarter last year.

What I fi nd interesting about this whole thing is, MS has introduced their ‘iPod killer’ by the name of Zune, and there have been many reports of problems with Apple’s quality problems with their MacBook line of portable computers. When you include the fact that many of the most widely used programs are not yet universal so you have to run them in emulation on these new Mac’s, the increase in Mac sales is GREAT. Just think of the surge Apple should see when MS Offi ce (Word and Excel specifi cally) and Adobe’s Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign specifi cally) get released as native, or rather universal programs.

This lack of universal support by these companies (Microsoft and Adobe) does have a plus side however. At least to me. It gives those smaller companied that might have a compeating product a chance to grow their share of the market. Programs like Nisus Writer Express, that IS universal, should get many new customers, as people get tired of waiting for MS to ship a universal version of Word. Many people will also try out the free software, like GIMP, to see if they can get along without Photoshop. While in a quick search iof the GIMP site, (http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/) I didn’t fi nd any reference as to if it was universal or not, I tend to suppect it is. (You might also note that this particular piece of software requires Apple’s X11.app and as such, might make a very good demo topic for those of us that have never run it.)

I already have a start to next months newsletter in an article from Bill Bryant. He asks a very interesting question - What is your favorite widgets. He then give us a short, one column article as to what his is. Have you a favorite? Why not write and let us all know!

Product: DataRescue IIEmergency Hard Drive Recovery

Company: Prosoft Engineering, IncURL: www.prosofteng.com <http://www.prosofteng.com>Price: $99Rating:

Reviewer: Maria O. Arguello

My daughter called me in a panic that all her photos on

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T h eP r e s i d e n t ’ sC o r n e r

B y P a u l

B e n d e c kBreen’s Bungalow:Christopher Breen and MacWorld Magazine have started producing monthly video tutorials about various Apple products along with helpful tips to get the most out of them. The tutorials are called ÒBreenÕs BungalowÓ and run about 10 minutes long. These tutorials are available to Apple User Groups to show at meetings and to share with members. We plan to show these tutorials at SNAC meetings.

Unfortunately, the terms of use for the tutorials do not allow online distribution via email or posting to a web site. The tutorials are intended to be viewed at Apple User Group meetings. However, the terms do allow making copies of the tutorials on CD for distribution to members or making copies onto a member’s USB fl ash drive. So, if you are interested in having your own copy of these tutorials, you can obtain your copy in one of the following ways: a) bring your Apple laptop to the meeting and copy the tutorials to your hard drive from the club CD copy, b) bring a USB fl ash drive and make a copy of the tutorials from the club Mac Mini computer, or c) bring a blank CD-R disk with your name on it to the meeting and a copy can be made for you and returned at the following meeting.

So far, SNAC has accumulated 3 sessions of Breen’s Bungalow. Each month when a new session is released, it will be added to the SNAC CD. So be sure to check at each meeting for the latest tutorials. The fi les for each tutorial are about 100 MB, so make sure you have adequate disk space or a big enough USB fl ash drive.

“Breen’s Bungalow” is a QuickTime video tutorial produced in conjunction with each issue of Macworld magazine. Special versions of “Breen’s Bungalow” are being made available to Macintosh User Groups to distribute to their members on CD or via hard drive copy, and/or present at their meetings. Even better, these special editions not only include new content produced exclusively for user groups, but will also be of higher quality than any other versions available.

See you at the next meeting.

her computer were gone!!!! She was truly distraught. My grandson had gotten a new iPod and was on the computer doing things when he inadvertently deleted all the images in iPhoto.

I put DataRescue II to the task and told her that I might have a solution but could not guarantee anything. I told her to turn off the computer and not allow anybody to use it until I attempted the recovery.

DataRescue II is not a repair utility like DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro. It does what its name says. It rescues data you lose.

You will need an USB or FireWire external hard drive, or another internal hard drive, as large as your internal drive needing rescue because DataRescue II because it leaves the original drive untouched preventing any additional loss of data. You will boot from the DataRescue CD. You will see a window whereby you will have a choice to rescue your entire drive or just the fi les you need. In my daughter’s case, I only wanted to recover images.

I was pleasantly surprised at the thorough job DataRescue II did in fi nding EVERYTHING and then some. I had good news for my daughter, and I looked very, very smart.

The folder of recovered images had the thumbnails, original, modifi ed images, deleted items (new in DataRescue II), and movies that were imported into iPhoto.

This is a must have utility. It does what it’s supposed to do exceptionally well.

About the author:Maria O. Arguello is president and vendor liaison of the Main Line Macintosh Users Group (MLMUG) also member of PMUG, NCMUG, MUGSNJ, SJAUG, and CCPMUG.She is the Apple User Group Regional Liaison for the Northeast United States, as well as the Liaison for Online Groups.

Attribution Information:Copyright © 2006 Maria O. Arguello. This article may be reprinted by anyMacintosh User Group in their newsletter or publication distributed on paper or online, with credit given to the author and original publishing user group (Maria O. Arguello, MLMUG, <[email protected]>). Commercial or other publication prohibited unless the author grants specifi c permission.

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-<< SNAC HELPNET >>-How it Works: To you who wish to help others:On a piece of blank paper, enter this information about yourself: Name; Phone Number; Interest. CHANGE AND DATE YOUR IN FOR MA TION WHEN NEC ES SARY. We will periodically print the updated complete listing of ev ery one on the NET supplying the information. Then, be pre pared to supply HELP to other SNAC members who see what your spe cial ties are.

If you want help, phone the person(s) whose specialty matches your problem.

NAME PHONE NO. IN TER ESTS & SPE CIAL TIES

Tim Adams 603-595-9522 Pagemaker, Quick en, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, OS XBill Bryant 603 882-7338 Appleworks and QuickenRick Branscomb 603 424-1433 Webpages, HTML, Adobe PageMill, Adobe GoLive, Netscape Com poser, AppleWorks,Educational SoftwareJayson Lee 603 579-0339 Photoshop/Freehand/Illustrator/GoLive/FlashPaul Bendeck 603-672-0084 Installing and confi guring MacOSX and applications, hardware upgrades, AppleWorks, iTunes, iPhoto

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Can’t quite get your fi nger on the prob lem?Try the Helpnet!

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE APPLE CORE17 HUTCHINSON STREET • NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE • 03064

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AND SURVEY QUESTIONNAIREPlease complete and forward, together with $20.00 annual dues, to the above addressATTN: Secretary or bring it to a SNAC monthly meeting. Make checks payable to SNAC.Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of every month, 7PM, downstairs at the Nashua Public Library.

Date: ____ /____ /____ New Renewal

________________________________________________Name

_______________________________ _________________Mailing Address

______________________ _________ ______________City State Zip Code

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• Do you have Internet Access (yes) (no)

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• Apple Computer(s) which you own or use.

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