From jrearick at bobbis.net Thu Feb 14 09:33:30 2008 From: jrearick at bobbis.net (John Rearick) Date: Thu Feb 14 09:38:03 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: Disable Spaces Auto Switch Message-ID: It appears in the 10.5.2 update a new preference was added to the Dock that allows you to disable the auto desktop switching feature that has been bugging me since spaces came out. The preference is only accessible in the terminal, but it has made my life much easier. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348 defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-autoswoosh -bool NO John From bnew at iastate.edu Wed Feb 20 15:59:57 2008 From: bnew at iastate.edu (Brandon Newendorp) Date: Wed Feb 20 16:05:05 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: Meeting Announcement Message-ID: <3CEA50CC-C6B0-41B1-9542-38EC5DCBD454@iastate.edu> Apologies for the late notice on this meeting announcement - we just finalized our meeting topic this afternoon. We'll be having a general meeting tomorrow (Thursday), February 21 at 7PM. We are meeting this semester in Howe 1252. Tomorrow evening's meeting will be about "GTD & Getting Organized on Mac OS X so you have the time to focus on what you want" We'll also have time for question & answer afterwards. Hope to see you there. -- Brandon Newendorp From colindw at gmail.com Thu Feb 21 22:31:41 2008 From: colindw at gmail.com (Colin Wheeler) Date: Thu Feb 21 22:37:00 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: Links for items in GTD/Organizing Meeting Message-ID: Here are the links for items in the GTD/Organizing Meeting tonight Apps OmniFocus: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/ Anxiety: http://www.anxietyapp.com/ TaskPaper: http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper Things: http://www.culturedcode.com/things/ Camoflauge: http://www.briksoftware.com/products/camouflage/ Think: http://www.freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=7013 Videos David Allen Talk @ Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796033787900433945&q=David+Allen+Google&total=599&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Merlin Mann: Inbox Zero: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925&q=Inbox+Zero&total=31&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Merlin Mann: Attention Sinks and Time Burglars: http://www.43folders.com/2008/02/14/time-attention-talk Useful Productivity Sites (mostly focusing on Mac) 43Folders (Merlin Mann): http://www.43folders.com/ LifeHacker: http://lifehacker.com/ ZenHabbits: http://zenhabits.net/ Hope this helps you on your path to zen! Colin Wheeler http://code.google.com/p/redflag/ http://groups.google.com/group/redflag-project From colindw at gmail.com Thu Feb 21 22:50:42 2008 From: colindw at gmail.com (Colin Wheeler) Date: Thu Feb 21 22:56:01 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: How to save flash videos Message-ID: <9A7B7188-3A66-4757-B88E-2958ADB39121@gmail.com> Btw if you want to save those flash videos so you can watch them again without having to re-download them each time every time you watch it. Go here http://keepvid.com/ . You can copy and past the urls in the mail message and they have browser buttons to automate this. Once you have the downloaded video you can play it back with VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) or convert it into Quicktime with iSquint ( http:// www.isquint.org/ .) Colin Wheeler http://code.google.com/p/redflag/ http://groups.google.com/group/redflag-project From colindw at gmail.com Sun Feb 24 14:38:55 2008 From: colindw at gmail.com (Colin Wheeler) Date: Sun Feb 24 14:44:27 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: MBP Laptop Stand Recommendations Message-ID: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> Hello all, Im finally rearranging and reorganizing things on my desk and one of the things I'd like to do is to get a stand that rises my 15" MacBook Pro into the air to cool it down as I run a lot of cpu intensive applications and keep it as level as possible with my dell lcd screen. So far the only good stands I've found are the mStand (im leaning towards right now) http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html and the Evevator http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator are there any other good stands out there that really raise macbook/ pro's into the air and aren't just angle incline stands that tilt the back of a laptop up? Do any of you who have these stands like/hate specific things about them? Colin Wheeler colindw@gmail.com From nickmeyer07 at gmail.com Sun Feb 24 14:47:52 2008 From: nickmeyer07 at gmail.com (Nicholas Meyer) Date: Sun Feb 24 14:53:19 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: MBP Laptop Stand Recommendations In-Reply-To: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> References: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> Message-ID: <88418CE1-A491-43CF-90AA-FEEFF6C700EE@gmail.com> I have the Griffin Elevator and I'm pretty happy with it. You just have to be careful not to shake the desk too much, the computer has a tendency to slide down on it a bit if you do (but it's never gotten close to falling off). -Nick On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote: > Hello all, > > Im finally rearranging and reorganizing things on my desk and one of > the things I'd like to do is to get a stand that rises my 15" > MacBook Pro into the air to cool it down as I run a lot of cpu > intensive applications and keep it as level as possible with my dell > lcd screen. So far the only good stands I've found are > > the mStand (im leaning towards right now) http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html > > and > > the Evevator http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator > > are there any other good stands out there that really raise macbook/ > pro's into the air and aren't just angle incline stands that tilt > the back of a laptop up? Do any of you who have these stands like/ > hate specific things about them? > > > Colin Wheeler > colindw@gmail.com > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. > > List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on > the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest > preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group > e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. > > Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. From jonny at iastate.edu Sun Feb 24 15:08:42 2008 From: jonny at iastate.edu (Jonathan Salvador) Date: Sun Feb 24 15:14:38 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: MBP Laptop Stand Recommendations In-Reply-To: <88418CE1-A491-43CF-90AA-FEEFF6C700EE@gmail.com> References: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> <88418CE1-A491-43CF-90AA-FEEFF6C700EE@gmail.com> Message-ID: <92062379-773D-4B16-8ED1-18F2AC044F2D@iastate.edu> I have the mStand and like it very much, because I can barely notice it. And you can shake the desk all you want, because the mStand has a small lip on the bottom that both prevents the MacBook from falling off and keeps it firmly in place. ---------------------------------------- Jonathan Salvador jonny@iastate.edu On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Nicholas Meyer wrote: > I have the Griffin Elevator and I'm pretty happy with it. You just > have to be careful not to shake the desk too much, the computer has > a tendency to slide down on it a bit if you do (but it's never > gotten close to falling off). > > -Nick > > On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Im finally rearranging and reorganizing things on my desk and one >> of the things I'd like to do is to get a stand that rises my 15" >> MacBook Pro into the air to cool it down as I run a lot of cpu >> intensive applications and keep it as level as possible with my >> dell lcd screen. So far the only good stands I've found are >> >> the mStand (im leaning towards right now) http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html >> >> and >> >> the Evevator http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator >> >> are there any other good stands out there that really raise macbook/ >> pro's into the air and aren't just angle incline stands that tilt >> the back of a laptop up? Do any of you who have these stands like/ >> hate specific things about them? >> >> >> Colin Wheeler >> colindw@gmail.com >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >> >> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >> >> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. > > List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on > the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest > preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group > e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. > > Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://amesmug.ag.iastate.edu/pipermail/amesmug/attachments/20080224/1e706848/attachment.html From bnew at iastate.edu Sun Feb 24 15:30:05 2008 From: bnew at iastate.edu (Brandon Newendorp) Date: Sun Feb 24 15:35:33 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: MBP Laptop Stand Recommendations In-Reply-To: <92062379-773D-4B16-8ED1-18F2AC044F2D@iastate.edu> References: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> <88418CE1-A491-43CF-90AA-FEEFF6C700EE@gmail.com> <92062379-773D-4B16-8ED1-18F2AC044F2D@iastate.edu> Message-ID: I have both the Elevator and the iCurve (predecessor to the Elevator). Both are great - one benefit to the Elevator is that you can easily break it down into 3 parts if you are moving or taking it somewhere...I bring mine home with me for Christmas break, for example. The mStand is pretty though... -- Brandon Newendorp On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Jonathan Salvador wrote: > I have the mStand and like it very much, because I can barely notice > it. And you can shake the desk all you want, because the mStand has > a small lip on the bottom that both prevents the MacBook from > falling off and keeps it firmly in place. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > Jonathan Salvador > jonny@iastate.edu > > On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Nicholas Meyer wrote: > >> I have the Griffin Elevator and I'm pretty happy with it. You just >> have to be careful not to shake the desk too much, the computer has >> a tendency to slide down on it a bit if you do (but it's never >> gotten close to falling off). >> >> -Nick >> >> On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Im finally rearranging and reorganizing things on my desk and one >>> of the things I'd like to do is to get a stand that rises my 15" >>> MacBook Pro into the air to cool it down as I run a lot of cpu >>> intensive applications and keep it as level as possible with my >>> dell lcd screen. So far the only good stands I've found are >>> >>> the mStand (im leaning towards right now) http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html >>> >>> and >>> >>> the Evevator http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator >>> >>> are there any other good stands out there that really raise >>> macbook/pro's into the air and aren't just angle incline stands >>> that tilt the back of a laptop up? Do any of you who have these >>> stands like/hate specific things about them? >>> >>> >>> Colin Wheeler >>> colindw@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >>> >>> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >>> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >>> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >>> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >>> >>> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >> >> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >> >> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. >> > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. > > List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on > the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest > preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group > e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. > > Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://amesmug.ag.iastate.edu/pipermail/amesmug/attachments/20080224/adb32472/attachment-0001.html From jrearick at bobbis.net Sun Feb 24 23:06:42 2008 From: jrearick at bobbis.net (John Rearick) Date: Sun Feb 24 23:12:21 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: MBP Laptop Stand Recommendations In-Reply-To: References: <816A01F0-6376-4B57-A4FC-97331165A987@gmail.com> <88418CE1-A491-43CF-90AA-FEEFF6C700EE@gmail.com> <92062379-773D-4B16-8ED1-18F2AC044F2D@iastate.edu> Message-ID: I got the Elevator for Christmas. With my MBP, I have not experienced any slippage. The only gripe I have is that my Apple display doesn't have an adjustable height, but it is much better than having it on the desk. John On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Brandon Newendorp wrote: > I have both the Elevator and the iCurve (predecessor to the > Elevator). Both are great - one benefit to the Elevator is that you > can easily break it down into 3 parts if you are moving or taking it > somewhere...I bring mine home with me for Christmas break, for > example. > > The mStand is pretty though... > -- > Brandon Newendorp > > > On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Jonathan Salvador wrote: > >> I have the mStand and like it very much, because I can barely >> notice it. And you can shake the desk all you want, because the >> mStand has a small lip on the bottom that both prevents the MacBook >> from falling off and keeps it firmly in place. >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> Jonathan Salvador >> jonny@iastate.edu >> >> On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Nicholas Meyer wrote: >> >>> I have the Griffin Elevator and I'm pretty happy with it. You just >>> have to be careful not to shake the desk too much, the computer >>> has a tendency to slide down on it a bit if you do (but it's never >>> gotten close to falling off). >>> >>> -Nick >>> >>> On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> Im finally rearranging and reorganizing things on my desk and one >>>> of the things I'd like to do is to get a stand that rises my 15" >>>> MacBook Pro into the air to cool it down as I run a lot of cpu >>>> intensive applications and keep it as level as possible with my >>>> dell lcd screen. So far the only good stands I've found are >>>> >>>> the mStand (im leaning towards right now) http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> the Evevator http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator >>>> >>>> are there any other good stands out there that really raise >>>> macbook/pro's into the air and aren't just angle incline stands >>>> that tilt the back of a laptop up? Do any of you who have these >>>> stands like/hate specific things about them? >>>> >>>> >>>> Colin Wheeler >>>> colindw@gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ___________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >>>> >>>> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >>>> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >>>> >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >>>> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >>>> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >>>> >>>> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >>> >>> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >>> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >>> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >>> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >>> >>> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. >>> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. >> >> List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on >> the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest >> preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group >> e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. >> >> Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Send AmesMUG mailing list submissions to amesmug@amesmug.org. > > List archives sorted by posting date and thread are available on > the web at http://www.amesmug.org/pipermail/amesmug. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your digest/non-digest > preferences for the Ames Macintosh Users Group > e-mail list, please visit http://www.amesmug.org/lists/. > > Please send any feedback you may have to amesmug-owner@amesmug.org. From jrearick at bobbis.net Mon Feb 25 08:15:55 2008 From: jrearick at bobbis.net (John Rearick) Date: Mon Feb 25 08:21:27 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: TaskPaper on Sale Today Message-ID: <5F4D1E16-28C5-4B59-BC4D-C7894C7BE1C3@bobbis.net> TaskPaper, a program demoed by Colin at our last meeting about Getting Things Done, is on sale at macZOT today only (Monday) for only $12.00 if anyone was interested in purchasing it. http://www.maczot.com/index.php John From bnew at iastate.edu Mon Feb 25 20:37:15 2008 From: bnew at iastate.edu (Brandon Newendorp) Date: Mon Feb 25 20:42:50 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: Fwd: Student Job Fair info References: Message-ID: <94FB7C76-789D-4C3C-AAE5-1B2F62D73424@iastate.edu> May be of interest to members... -- Brandon Newendorp President - AmesMUG Begin forwarded message: > From: Marie Mayer > Date: February 25, 2008 5:57:28 PM CST > To: "Newendorp, Brandon J" , "Hillson, Thomas D > [AEX S]" > Subject: Student Job Fair info > > We are holding a Student Job Fair next week and I thought the > information > might be of interest to the members of the Ames Mac Users Group. I've > attached a PDF of an 8.5 x 11 flyer and included some information > below. > > Let me know if you prefer not to receive such information in the > future and > I'll take you off my contact list. > > ======= > Student Job Fair on March 5 > > Iowa State students--are you looking for a job that is on campus, > gives you > good experience, and helps perk up your resume? Check out the Job Fair > sponsored by IT Services on March 5 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm in the > Durham > Center atrium. > > This campus department is currently taking applications for summer > and fall > employment. Information on jobs can be found at www.its.iastate.edu/apply/ > or at the Job Fair. > > -- > Marie Mayer, Communications Specialist 515-294-2787 > Information Technology Services mhmayer@iastate.edu > Iowa State University > Ames, IA 50011-2251 > > -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From gwied at iastate.edu Thu Feb 28 13:22:48 2008 From: gwied at iastate.edu (Wiedenhoeft, Glenn R [AGRON]) Date: Thu Feb 28 13:28:52 2008 Subject: AmesMUG: Mac Job on CraigsList Message-ID: Mac Aficionados, I found this while browsing for other stuff. Perhaps some of you fit the bill? http://desmoines.craigslist.org/cpg/579435436.html =================================== SEEKING MAC GENIUS FOR COMPUTER GIG IN OSKALOOSA Reply to: gigs-579435436@craigslist.org Date: 2008-02-19, 12:49PM CST Video editor and business person (couple) moving to Oskaloosa from California. Numerous Macs to set up and network. Define and set up: new back up protocol. Must be genius with Mac. Can you help? Will pay a competitive hourly rate for good help. Reply with short letter telling us about yourself and desired hourly rate. Will need help with several things. Thanks! * Location: Oskaloosa * it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests * Compensation: hourly rate PostingID: 579435436 =================================== Glenn Wiedenhoeft -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://amesmug.ag.iastate.edu/pipermail/amesmug/attachments/20080228/eccdc13b/attachment.html