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to download apps on her own computer

that syncs with her iPod. You can suggest

easily new apps for her. If you control-

click or right click on the large app’s icon

on the page in the App Store, you will get

a short contextual menu with the Copy

Link choice. You can then paste that into

an email, that when your daughter receives

it, will bring up the page where she can

check it out and download it herself and

then sync the entire local app collection

to her iPod. Of course if they are not free,

she will need to pay for them, or you have

to pay in advance by buying her a iTunes

gift card. A variation on that is you can

click on the little triangle to the right of

the Buy App button and select Gift This

App. You have to fill out a short form with

her name and email address and personal

message. That same triangle has a Copy

Link pop-up menu item and also a Tell

A Friend option, but you have to type in

the email address in the form. The Copy

Link option is best if you are composing

an email with many suggestions.

How many years can you have

AppleCare?

■ Just three years and after that you are

on your own. You may be able to buy a

independent service plan from a dealer, but

not AppleCare. After the three year deal

from an AppleCare Protection Plan, there

is only another two year window anyway

before Apple stops making replacement

parts and thus could offer a paid service

on your Mac. See Apple’s list of vintage

and obsolete Macs and peripherals: http://

support.apple.com/kb/HT1752. As for tele-

phone tech support, then at least you have

the paid support per incident plan for $49

for your Mac or $29 for your iPod/iPad/

iPhone or a problem with iTunes. http://

www.apple.com/support/products/pay-per-

incident.html.

I have a Apple Airport Express, two

Macs and two iPhones. I may wake up

and the Mac is connected to a Linksys

network. I guess this is a neighbor’s wire-

less network. I have to unplug and plug it

back in to get it to work again. Do I need

a Airport Extreme? I also have a shared

USB printer connected.

■ The Airport Express should be able to

handle four clients. The Mac is no doubt

automatically selecting the next available

wireless network when it can’t find the

Airport Express. As these are often directly

plugged into a wall outlet, they are also

prone to getting fried by a power surge.

Any router tends to not last very long, so

if it’s pretty old, you should expect it’s time

to replace it. While the current Airport

Extreme with it’s dual transcievers is better

than the Express, at $179 it’s rather more

expensive than other wireless routers, but

if you want to use Apple’s Airport Utility

to control your wireless router, then the

competition is out of the question. While

other brands of wireless routers have USB

ports, they never work as smoothly with

the Mac for sharing a simple USB printer.

Not that every USB printer works con-

nected to a Airport base station. For that

reason, I’d suggest sticking with Apple.

The $99 Airport Express offers IEEE

802.11n speeds with the USB port but

just one wired Ethernet port to connect

to a cable or DSL modem. The $179

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you prefer using the keyboard, which does

not interrupt your typing (and saves time),

you can use the shortcuts: command-b =

bold, command-i = italic, or command-u =

underline. While discussing the use of fonts,

Bradley also briefly explained the types of

fonts that are appropriate for specific situa-

tions. He also did a short demonration of

Font Book, and how to disable fonts you

don’t use (this can make your Mac more

responsive in certain situations).

Next on the agenda, was formatting;

use of the included writing tools, and the

use of special charaers and insertion of

images. Brad discussed proper use of tab

ops, to give text the appropriate appear-

ance for each situation. He pointed out the

dotted red underline that indicates spelling

errors, and the right click to bring up the

contextual menu from which you can choose

spelling, diionary, or Google search. Next

he demonrated how to use the Charaer

Palette to insert any special charaers you

might need, such as the pi (π) symbol, or an

accented letter, often used for a non-English

language. Bradley also showed how to drag

an image into TextEdit, Pages, or Word.

Almo any image format is supported, and

you can also drop in a media file, that will

aually run within the document (Bradley

mentioned that many media formats don’t

play properly.) You cannot resize this image

in TextEdit, but you can in Word or Pages.

Bradley moved on to demonrate the

awesome (but little known) powers of

Preview. Mo people are under the impres-

sion that Preview is ju a viewer. Well, many

people were in for a surprise. Preview will

allow you to do some minor editing on

photos such as; adju brightness and con-

tra, resize, and crop. Open an image and

you can highlight text, annotate (leave notes,

comments and point out things), in addition

you can sele and copy graphics. You mu

cuomize the toolbar in Leopard’s version

of Preview to get the annotate tools. It turns

out, this unassuming free program that

Apple includes with the operating syem, is

a real powerhouse.

It seems that when Bradley (the Top Gun)

or any of our other knowledgeable members

does a presentation, it is chock full of useful

information and techniques we might not

know or have forgotten. As always I would

like to thank Bradley for a ellar presenta-

tion. I could not possibly include everything

he went over in this article. So as I have

often said before, get down to the meetings,

you’ll always take home uff money can’t

buy. I would also like to encourage anyone

who has something to share to speak to Bill

Medlow, or any of the board members. We

would be happy to give you some time at a

meeting to show off to the other members.

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