Last Saturday’s MacLearn was a winnah. Mahalo to the 25 new and long time members who came out in force, and to Norm Hallett and Kimo Sutton for the pictures! Mahalo nui loa to Rolf Nordahl of MacMouse for giving us an information packed morning. Rolf took questions and topics from the group then proceeded to fill the two hours with lots of great tips. He first covered Mail, a built-in Mac app that lets you gather all of your mailboxes (.mac, Gmail, Yahoo) in one spot, then manage your messages. It has drag and drop convenience for adding pictures and files as attachments. Rolf then covered backups, Apple’s billion dollar server farm and answered questions about browsers, DSL vs Cable, and Safari.
Missed it? No problemo, you can download the Mail and Shortcuts handouts, Ross Rasmussen’s SpringFest Mac 101 Desktop handout and a full set of Mac 202 Session Notes (soon to be posted) at http://dropio.com/HMAUS_maclearn. Read on for more of Rolf’s tips…
So what about Backups? Rolf convinced us that backups should be a part of our daily or weekly routine. Leopard offers you Time Machine for hourly, weekly, then monthly backups…IF you attach an external hard drive, turn it on and say “Yes! please backup!” That’s it! But is Time Machine enough? He says no, you have to have a backup backup. Or, you can recover your data . . . for about $3,000 – $8,000. Yes, backup!
Here were a couple of Rolf’s useful shortcuts:
- Fast Search: When you’re in a browser press Cmd-L (press the Command key and hold it down while you press the L key). This highlights the location (URL) box at the top of your browser. Then type just the name of the site, don’t Delete first, just type. Press the Return key. The typing replaces what’s in the location box, and the browser will fill in the http://www… and .com for you.
- Switch apps fast: If you have several apps open, switch between them by pressing Cmd-tab. Keep hitting the tab key (with Cmd held down) until it rotates to the one you want.
Cool sites:
- Marcy Katz offered this for picking up mail on the road if you need to – go to http://www.mail2web.com, login and there it is! Try it with the above tip… Cmd-L….mail2web…..Return.
- How fast are you going? Go to http://www.speedtest.net to find out. In a few seconds it clocks your current upload and download speeds. Try it with Safari 4, Firefox and IE and see if there’s a difference.
Intent listeners, Rolf and his tips, his Mac Mini and cool UPS gadget.
Yumms. HMAUS treated coffee or folks bought their favorite drinks. ING Direct has ono snacks available and $3 chili and rice for those who wanted to hang around. Great venue. Mahalo ING Direct!
Kimo, Dorothy Hallett, Marcy Katz and Rolf, ING Direct conf. room for hands-on training.
Rolf invites you to his free Leopard and other things Mac sessions every 1st and 3rd Saturday from 12 – 2 pm
at his shop at 627 South Street 921-8294 info@macmouse.com6
808-921-8294
What’s next?? Join us for our July MacLearn on iPhoto
Saturday July 25th 10 – 12 noon at ING Direct Cafe!
Hands-on workshop to follow one or two weeks later.
Also coming up
Image Maker’s Outdoor Family Portraits Workshop
July 19th
A hui hou! Be seeing you!
Directions/Parking for ING Direct and the tentative MacLearn schedule are at
http://www.hmaus.org/index.php/meetings-workshops/maclearn/
