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by By John Willner, willner@earthlink.net - December 18, 2000 at 18:34:15:
The main topic of discussion was MacWorld, coming up January 9-12 in San Francisco. The action will be to sign Claire Lemire in as Ambassador to our club. Since she has a tradeoff between sleep and which breakfasts to attend, the decision will be up to her for registrations. The transportation problem appears to have been solved. There is room in a van and room in a car.A report was given of CD burning for digital photographs on Mac and Windows computers. Using Toast, Mac usage is no problem. However, Windows users can’t read the file names unless ISO 9660 formatting is applied. Since viewing JPEG photographs was the objective in the first place, getting away with the free version of Toast would be desirable. However, it seems Windows has more problems; like blacking out the screen and rebooting. Then you have to go through the wait of fixing problems caused by not shutting the computer down properly. ISO 9660 requires a more advanced version of Toast, which costs money. The saga of spreading CDs around to family members on different computers will be continued.
We had a lively discussion on digital movie cameras, imovie and how music is brought in along with video. We may have a demo next month.
Claire attended a Mac lecture on Office 2001 that included MYOB and QuickTime. Many of the comments were interesting. In view of the fact that Intuit appears to be hurting Mac users by doubling the price of MacInTax, dropping the business version, and bloating the existing QuickTime software without much advantage, alternatives will be investigated at MacWorld. Perhaps with OS X, it is time for a change anyway. However, the report on Microsoft’s Office 2001 was comparatively good.
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