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Those of you who have a MagicMouse, you know some of the limitations. MagicPrefs is a FREE menubar and preference pane application for OSX that eliminates many of those limits. It adds functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.

Also featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees your input.

MagicPrefs is a application meant to run in the background all the time hence it has no interface elements to get in the way and it uses less than 1% CPU and is optimized for a minimal impact on the system performance.

The site does offer this advice:

Take it easy with the gestures, take your time to get comfortable with each new gesture before adding another.

See the site and download the software here: http://magicprefs.com/

And follow the link on that site to read about Magic Menu, which is part of the software you hopefully downloaded.

MagicMenu is meant as a extremely fast way to perform a action by harnessing the power of the body-mind coordination.

As you get used to it you only have to think “do bottom action” for example and trigger the menu, move your finger down, raise the finger and you have performed that action, you do not even have to look at the menu itself.

Available for download are 2 PDF files describing the contents of the next 2 Disk of the Month offerings.

Both are DVD’s this time around.

Disk 1 contains good stuff on the iLife and iWork suites. Download HERE

Disk 2 contains Mac OS X How to Guides - Download HERE

As a result of having O’Reilly Books send us some great manuals for the library, and review, I have found some articles I think will interest some of you.

First is a chapter on iLife with a great look through Garageband, and the second article I chose was one on “What’s in that Script Menu?”

The iLife Crash Course PDF is available HERE (3.4MB)

and the Script Menu PDF is available HERE(280KB)

From the O’Reilly Publishing Group’s series of “The Missing Manual” we have received 4 fantastic titles:

• Mac OS X SnowLeopard
• iMovie and iDVD ‘09
• iPhoto ‘09
• Photoshop Elements 8

John Feltham is taking care of iPhoto and Photoshop Elements, while I get into the Snow Leopard and iMovie / iDVD books.
With these references now available we should be able to answer most questions. (I hope). Any queries please send along via the email list or come along to the meetings and workshops.

Cocoamug Software has solved the problem of capturing YouTube videos with CosmoPod for Mac OS X. CosmoPod is a one-click simple extension to Apple Safari browser that helps you saving and converting internet media content to your Mac, iPhone, AppleTV or iPod.

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We now have available all the archives of Disk of the Month from AUSOM (Apple Users’ Society of Melbourne), Australia’s largest and most active Apple User Group.
Follow the link below to view our web page listing all the available disks. Each image on that page is linked to a downloadable PDF file, listing the contents.

DOTM Preview Page

February 2010’s Disc of the month is called “Web Developer Deluxe” and contains a collection of tools to help you easily create & maintain your own web sites!
The CD will be available at the March 9th. General Meeting and the Workshop night on March 16th.

If you are not too sure of what each program does just copy/paste the name into a Google search window.

Web Developer Deluxe contains the following applications;
Web Creation

* Blogo
* CreaText
* Goldfish
* MarsEdit
* myBlogEdit
* Nvu
* PageSpinner
* RAGE WebDesign
* RapidWeaver
* Sandvox
* SeaMonkey
* Taco HTML Edit

iWeb Enhancers

* iWeb Buddy
* iWeb SEO Tool
* iWeb Valet
* Multisite for iWeb

Site Optimization

* Advanced Link Manager
* Advanced Web Ranking
* HTML-Optimizer Pro
* Master of My Domain
* PageRank Viewer for Mac
* RAGE Domainer
* RAGE Sitemap Automator
* RAGE WebCrusher
* Web Site Maestro

Text & Graphics

* BannerZest Pro
* Google AdWords Editor
* RWmultitool 2
* ShutterBug
* Simple CSS
* Smultron
* TextSoap
* TextWrangler
* Visual LightBox
* WebScrub

The applications supplied on this CD are supplied as is and we make no representations regarding the applications nor any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.

You may download the first issue for the year of the Apple User Groups Spotlight PDF. 32 pages of News, Info, Reviews and even a Recipe. Click HERE to download

Workshops are also held on Tuesday evenings (week following the General Meeting). Workshops commence at 6:00 p.m. and generally conclude at about 9:00 p.m.

Workshops are essentially long question-and-answer sessions covering topics and solving problems that are too extensive to cover at a meeting. Members should bring their Macs as this ensures that you can save files generated during the workshop on your own machine.

Meetings

Meetings are held on Tuesday evenings. (2nd. Tuesday of the month)
Meetings commence at 7:00 p.m. and generally conclude at about 9:00 p.m.

Meetings commence with club administration. A moderated question-and-answer session follows at which computer-related problems affected members are answered and any other information which may be of interest to members passed on. The meeting concludes with a presentation lasting about 30 minutes. Anyone is free to give a presentation.

Tea and coffee are provided. Please bring your own mug.