TidBITS#831/29-May-06
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This week brings a wide variety of articles, ranging from Sharon
Zardetto Aker's explanation of the most common mistake Mac OS X
users make with fonts to Matt Neuburg's look at the Web searching
utility DEVONagent 2.0. Adam mourns MacHack by passing on some
thoroughly useless Sudden Motion Sensor hacks, and Mark Anbinder
reports on the upcoming Nike+iPod Sport Kit that turns an iPod
nano into a training aid for runners. In the news, Apple loses
its lawsuit against Mac news sites on appeal, iWeb 1.1.1 fixes
some minor bugs, and Folklore.org's written stories return to
the oral tradition.
Topics:
MailBITS/29-May-06
Grab Your iPod and Run
Sudden Motion Sensor Hacks
DEVONagent 2.0 Upgrade a Mixed Bag
Avoid the Most Common Mac OS X Font Mistake
Take Control News/29-May-06
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/29-May-06
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**Appeals Court Sides with Mac News Sites over Apple** -- In a
major victory for online news sources, an appeals court ruled
last week that Apple could not subpoena email in order to trace
the source of leaked trade secrets. In December 2004, PowerPage
and Apple Insider posted stories about an unannounced Apple audio
product, code-named Asteroid, which included information and
drawings leaked from sources inside the company. Apple could not
identify the sources of the leaks, and therefore sued "John Does"
for breach of confidentiality agreements; as part of the discovery
process, Apple sought to subpoena PowerPage's ISP to obtain stored
email that might reveal the sources' identities. Apple claimed
that the site's owners were not genuine journalists and that, even
if they had been, they had no right to protect their anonymous
sources. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took up the
case, arguing that Apple's attempts to obtain this information
violated both federal and California laws. Although a lower court
had sided with Apple in March 2005, last week's ruling by the
California Court of Appeals overturns that decision. One upshot
of last week's ruling is that ISPs cannot be forced to turn over
confidential email in response to civil lawsuits - and that
apparently applies to everyone, not just journalists. [JK]
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004698>
<http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/H028579.pdf>
**iWeb 1.1.1 Improves Comments, Searching, Publishing** -- Apple
released iWeb 1.1.1 last week, noting that the update "refines
comment and search support for blogs and podcasts published to
.Mac," two features that were recently introduced in iWeb 1.1.
The update also fixes problems related to publishing Web sites
to .Mac. The iWeb 1.1.1 updater weighs in at a hefty 88.8 MB as
a stand-alone download (it's also available via Software Update),
but also includes the changes made in the 1.0.1 and 1.1 updates.
[JLC]
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iweb111.html>
**Oral Folk Tales of Mac History** -- Stories of famous Mac
people, the reality distortion field, and years of sleeplessness
are now available in oral form from Derek Warren. At Macintosh
Folklore Radio, Warren is reading the snippets that are part of
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org that represents part
of the book Hertzfeld compiled into Revolution in the Valley.
I reviewed that charming, picaresque tale for TidBITS last year
(see "Continuous Revolution").
<http://folklore.trideja.com/>
<http://www.folklore.org/>
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007191/tidbitselectro00/ref=nosim/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07960>
Warren is performing these episodes under terms of the Creative
Commons license that Hertzfeld applied to his writing (though
Warren still asked permission). The episodes can be downloaded as
podcasts from the iTunes Music Store, too. It's ironic, of course,
that a site that purports to tell the true story is called
Folklore.org, that a written history is being turned into
"oral folklore," and that the voice reading the stories isn't
that of the first-person author who wrote them as "folklore." [GF]
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/>
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=154536992>
Grab Your iPod and Run
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by Mark H. Anbinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apple and Nike last week jointly announced the Nike+iPod Sport
Kit, a two-piece wireless gadget available in late June that
pairs Nike sneakers and an iPod nano to help runners track their
performance. The iPod will display info and provide audible
feedback during the run, and will sync your running stats to
iTunes when you connect to a computer running iTunes 6.0.5
(available soon as a free download). The same info can be
synchronized to Nike's nikeplus.com Web site, where you'll
be able to match up against other runners.
<http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/>
<http://www.nikeplus.com/>
Nike's new "Nike+" shoe styles, beginning with the Nike+ Air Zoom
Moire, include a pocket under the insole to hold the Nike+iPod
sensor, featuring an accelerometer that wirelessly transmits
your running stats (including distance, time, pace, and calories
burned) to an iPod nano's matching receiver, which plugs into
the nano's dock connector.
Before running, you can select a "Power Song" that will help
you past those slow stretches, offering extra inspiration at the
touch of a button. The iTunes Music Store will offer special music
iMixes suitable for running, with introductions recorded by
athletes.
Apple says the Nike+iPod Sport Kits will be available in late June
for $30 at apple.com, nike.com, Apple Stores, Apple authorized
resellers, Niketown stores, and select Nike retailers; the iPod
nano ($150 to $250) and Nike+ sneakers ($85 to $110) are, of
course, sold separately. The company says the sensor's built-in
battery won't be replaceable, and battery life will depend on
usage and other factors, so you may end up having to buy new
sensors every so often. The unit is water-resistant, meaning that
it shouldn't have trouble with the soaking associated with rainy
runs, although it won't withstand sustained submersion.
There's no inherent reason why this clever joint project couldn't
(though it doesn't) work with other iPod models sporting the dock
connector, but I suspect Apple wants to encourage runners to use
iPod models with solid-state memory rather than a less shock-
resistant hard drive.
For some opinions about the Nike+iPod Sport Kit from Adam, who in
another life is a competitive runner, listen in on his MacNotables
podcast on the topic.
<http://www.macnotables.com/archives/2006/649.html>
Sudden Motion Sensor Hacks
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The MacHack developers conference always used to roll around about
this time of year, and even though the conference is no more, the
itch to create utterly cool but completely useless hacks is back
in season. I don't have a recent PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, or
MacBook Pro with which to test the Sudden Motion Sensor hacks
that have been appearing, but watching the videos is probably
safer anyway.
Anthony Maddox's MacSaber uses the information from the Sudden
Motion Sensor to cause Macs waved in the air to make Star Wars
light saber noises, enabling silly looking battles between geeks
wielding expensive PowerBooks.
<http://isnoop.net/blog/2006/05/20/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-a-jedi-weapon>
<http://youtube.com/results?search=macsaber&search_type=search_videos&;
search=Search>
For another take on how to abuse the Sudden Motion Sensor, check
out Erling Ellingsen's SmackBook Pro hack, which ties in with a
virtual desktop utility to enable the user to thwack the Mac on
the side to switch to and from different desktops.
<http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html>
These hacks raise all sort of other uses for the Sudden Motion
Sensor that would be satisfying, if undoubtedly bad for the Mac:
* Restarting the Mac by shaking it like an Etch-a-Sketch
* Being able to click the OK button by whacking the palm rest
* Bringing up the Force Quit dialog when the laptop is shaken
hard by a frustrated user
* An April Fools hack that would cause the screen to get wavy,
requiring a bonk on the side to restore it to crispness
DEVONagent 2.0 Upgrade a Mixed Bag
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by Matt Neuburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's over a year since I raved about DEVONagent here in TidBITS,
and my enthusiasm for what the program does has not waned.
DEVONagent uses existing search engines to perform an Internet
search, but then goes further, filtering out unwanted hits
in response to the details of your query, and loading the text
of the found pages into its own database, where they are word-
indexed and ranked to improve your chances of finding the
information you're seeking.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07977>
<http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonagent/>
DEVONagent 2.0 offers many small tweaks to make it an even more
exacting seeker of knowledge than before. Your initial query can
be accompanied by a secondary query, which DEVONagent performs
on the downloaded texts. (Oddly, however, you cannot impose the
secondary query after viewing the results of the initial query.)
Texts in individual languages can now be intelligently sought.
Automatic actions can be performed upon completion of a search,
such as Growl notification (useful because searches can be
lengthy); previously, such actions were possible only after
scheduled searches. A Dashboard widget lets you initiate a search
quickly. Topics extracted from the commonly used terms in the
found texts are displayed not only as a ranked list but also
as a network diagram.
<http://www.growl.info/>
<http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/screenshots/devonagent/
devonagent-2.jpg>
That's the good part - there's no question that DEVONagent 2.0's
new capabilities enhance an already useful and helpful program.
But despite these functional improvements, DEVONagent's interface
remains clumsy, riddled with jargon, and difficult to customize.
At the heart of DEVONagent's functionality are its Search Sets,
which despite the name are not "sets" of anything; they are the
instructions for performing a search. So a DEVONagent user's most
basic needs are to understand what a Search Set will do and to
create a new one. Yet both are nearly impossible.
To learn what a Search Set will do, you open the Search Sets
window by choosing Tools > Edit Search Sets... (Why not Window >
Search Sets? And the window isn't a modal dialog, so what's the
ellipsis for?) But you still don't know what the search will do,
because the heart of a search are the "plugins" it uses; these
contain the instructions as to what URL will be created from
your search terms and how the resulting page of links will
be parsed. So you switch to the Plugins tab of the Search Sets
window. Here, you are not shown just what plugins this Search
Set uses; instead, there's a list of all 130-plus plugins, and
you must hunt for which ones are checked - not easy, because
the plugins are arranged hierarchically, so you have to keep
opening disclosure triangles, manually. But you _still_ don't
know what each plugin actually does, because DEVONagent provides
no interface for displaying this information. Instead, you must
open the DEVONagent application bundle and read an embedded
XML "plist" file. These files are the heart of DEVONagent's
functionality; yet the program gives you no interface for
viewing and understanding them!
As for creating your own plugin, so that you can make a customized
search - well, I tried, and found the instructions so impenetrable
and the process so clumsy (you have to create the file using
Property List Editor, and you must keep quitting and restarting
DEVONagent to test), that in the end I gave it up. Lucky for me
that DEVONagent already includes plugins for the search pages
I use most. Unfortunately, they don't all work perfectly; I was
trying to fix the TidBITS plugin, which in response to a search
"neuburg applescript" failed to find my recent "Notes from the
AppleScript World" article. (DEVONagent searches of TidBITS
don't work at all now in any case; we've blocked them because
they tended to overstrain our archive server.)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08418>
Even these problems could be ameliorated by an excellent manual.
Unfortunately, DEVONagent's manual remains opaque; it is stingy
with examples and reads as though English were not the author's
first language. Take, for example, these inscrutable words
describing part of the search query syntax:
"DEVONagent ignores parts of query terms inside square [...]
brackets. This is useful for scanning to titles or authors inside
some databases, e.g., PubMed or Nucleotide. Example:
name[Author]word[Title]"
Such faults were forgivable in early versions, but with a 2.0
release, I would hope to see a more streamlined, discoverable
interface, backed by a solid manual. And if the upgrade were free,
it would be easier to overlook the problems. But this is a $20
upgrade, along with a price hike: the program is now $50, up from
$35 previously. In my view, the increased price, clumsy interface,
and unhelpful manual are potentially serious obstacles. The best
thing, however, is to download the demo (a 5.7 MB download) and
decide for yourself. Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher is required.
<http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/>
Avoid the Most Common Mac OS X Font Mistake
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by Sharon Zardetto Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Mac OS X approach to fonts is something that can leave users
baffled, and no wonder: many different types are supported, they
can be stored in a multitude of places, and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
installs some duplicate fonts as a default... and that's just
for starters.
In many months of font research for the recently published
"Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X" and its companion volume
"Take Control of Font Problems in Mac OS X," I trolled the Web
and lurked on many message boards, intrepidly experimented on my
own Macs, and served as the emergency contact for graphic designer
friends (and their friends, and their friends' friends). Of the
many misunderstandings and management mistakes users make, one
stands out as the most common: consolidating fonts into a single
Fonts folder.
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/fonts-macosx.html?14@@!pt=TB831>
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/font-problems-macosx.html?14@@!pt=TB831>
I don't know exactly what motivates people to do this. (I'm not
sure what motivates me to dig into the details of using the Mac -
I just do, even when I'm not going to write about it.) But many
users explore their systems, change things, and sometimes run
into trouble. The Font Book application included with Tiger
is such an improvement over its previous version that there's
seldom any need to deal directly with Fonts folders. (And graphics
professionals who need more than Font Book use third-party
font managers that protect them from needing to know about Fonts
folders.) But perhaps a user adds a font and wants to get rid
of what appear to be duplicates, or she comes from a Mac OS 9
background where it was more "normal" to manipulate font files
manually. Whatever the reason, when you first start poking around
on your drive looking for where fonts are stored (perhaps by
doing a Spotlight search for folders named "Fonts"), you may
be surprised to find at least three different folders, and
perhaps four, from Tiger:
* In the System directory (/System/Library/Fonts)
* At the "shared by all users" level (/Library/Fonts)
* In your home directory (~/Library/Fonts)
* In the Mac OS 9 System Folder (/System Folder/Fonts)
if you've installed Classic.
Installing Adobe's Creative Suite adds another Fonts folder
(in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts), and if you have
Microsoft Office, you get yet another (in /Applications/Microsoft
Office 2004/Office/Fonts).
<http://www.adobe.com/creativesuite/>
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/>
Many people, when faced with this seeming mess, decide it's
ridiculous to have fonts spread all over the place and start
shuffling the files around, combining them in only one or two
Fonts folders.
Despite the apparent simplicity, wholesale consolidation is
a mistake, because where your fonts are stored controls what
applications (and, on a multi-user Mac, which users) can see
those fonts. Most fonts are stored in various locations for
good reasons. Here's the scoop on each of the Fonts folders
listed above.
**System Fonts Folder** -- Tiger installs 30 fonts in this folder
(/System/Library/Fonts). Several of them are so important that if
you remove them, your menus and dialogs can implode into gibberish
and your Mac will refuse to start up. These all-important fonts
are LucidaGrande, Geneva, Monaco, and Helvetica. Only slightly
less important are Keyboard and LastResort, fonts that don't even
show up in your Font menus. Whether or not the two AquaKana
OpenType files are dispensable is a matter of some debate; my
considered opinion is that, since Apple went to some trouble to
keep them invisible - they don't show up in Font menus - you
should leave them alone. In fact, leave the System Fonts folder
completely alone: don't put fonts in it or take them out.
The System Fonts folder has its own unique way of interacting with
you when you try to remove any of its fonts: drag a font out and a
copy is automatically made in the destination, with the original
left in place. The only way you can really remove a font from this
folder is to send it directly to the Trash: drag it there, or
select it and press Command-Delete, or Command-click or right-
click on the icon for a contextual menu and choose Move To Trash.
You'll have to supply an administrative password along the way.
But while that's good to know in an academic sense, all these
safeguards against accidental removal of system fonts should
remind you to leave them all alone!
**Library Fonts Folder** -- Fonts in this folder (/Library/Fonts)
can be "seen" by all user accounts, so they're available to every
user of the machine. On a single-user Mac, there's really no
difference between storing fonts here or in the User Fonts folder.
Tiger puts 35 fonts in this folder; Apple's iLife and iWork
applications put their fonts here, too.
**User Fonts Folder** -- Each user account on the Mac has its own
Fonts folder (~/Library/Fonts); the fonts in it are available to
only that user. Tiger doesn't install any fonts in this folder;
Microsoft Office puts its fonts here - Office X provides 15 fonts,
but Office 2004 donates a generous 77 font files! If you're the
only user, this is where you should put any fonts you install.
On a multi-user Mac, you might want to keep some fonts private
to a specific account (so they don't clutter other users' Font
menus); to share them with all the users of a specific machine,
they must be in /Library/Fonts.
**Classic Fonts Folder** -- If the Classic environment is
installed on your machine, only the fonts in the Mac OS 9
System Folder (/System Folder/Fonts) are available to Classic
applications (they're also available to your Tiger applications).
Unlike Tiger's wider choice of font types, only Mac TrueType and
PostScript Type 1 fonts work in the Classic environment. Tiger
automatically smoothes fonts on the screen in only the Mac OS X
environment, so if you want your Type 1 fonts to be drawn
correctly on the screen (instead of with the famous, dreaded
"jaggies") in Classic, you need Adobe's ATM Light version 4.6.2
or later installed in Classic.
<http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html>
**Adobe's Fonts Folder** -- As befits the inventor of PostScript
fonts, Adobe provides a generous assortment of fonts with
its applications. But when they're in their default location,
only Adobe applications can access them (/Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Fonts). If you want to use these fonts in all your
applications, you must move them to the Library Fonts or User
Fonts folder. That sounds like a good deal until you see how
non-Adobe applications handle the plethora of typefaces for
these OpenType fonts: Warnock Pro, for instance, has 32 different
typefaces that Word lists in about two dozen entries! Moving a few
of your favorites, and turning them on and off through Font Book,
is a better plan than indiscriminately moving all of the Adobe
fonts to another folder. (Note that you won't see these fonts in
Font Book unless you move them to one of your Tiger Fonts folders;
Adobe's folder "belongs" to Adobe's applications, so Font Book
doesn't manage its contents.)
Another mistake users make in regard to the Adobe Fonts folder
is deleting it after moving its fonts to another Font folder.
Adobe buried a subfolder in it (/Library/Application Support/
Adobe/Fonts/Reqrd/Base) that holds more fonts, ones that
are used by Adobe applications for things like its tool palettes.
Without these fonts in that folder - in that specific folder
path - Adobe applications don't even open.
**Microsoft's Fonts Folder** -- This folder
(/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts) is a red
herring that leads to quite a bit of confusion in the category of
"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." If you know that Tiger
supports "application Fonts folders" such as the Adobe one just
described, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that this folder
holds fonts for Microsoft applications - especially because each
of the fonts in it shows up in your Fonts menu. The confusion
starts when you take a font out of the folder and realize it still
appears in your Font menu. Or, you add a font to the folder, and
it doesn't show up in your Font menu. Or, you notice that all its
fonts are also in your User fonts folder and you decide to delete
one or the other copy of the over six dozen duplicate files.
This folder is a mere storage bin; Tiger doesn't access it at all,
which is why altering its contents has no effect on your Font
menus. Microsoft Office copies these fonts into your User Fonts
folder the first time you run it; the originals stay in place,
to be copied for the next user account that runs Office, and
so on. Tiger accesses only the copies in the User Fonts folder.
**Fonts, Fonts, Everywhere** -- Don't assume that just because
Tiger uses so many Fonts folders that it doesn't matter which one
you use for your fonts, or that the best approach is to collect
all your fonts together for easier management. It's better to
understand the differences between the folders and store your
fonts based on how (and who) you want to access them.
[Sharon Zardetto Aker, who has written about the Mac since its
birth in 1984, made her first foray into electronic publishing
with her recent "Take Control of Fonts" titles. Between them,
the two ebooks contain over 350 pages of this kind of information
about fonts.]
Take Control News/29-May-06
---------------------------
by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**The Advice You Need to Run Windows on Your Mac** -- Macintosh
users have been able to run (or at least walk) Windows on their
Macs for a long time now, thanks to products like Virtual PC.
But now that software like Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop has
appeared for Intel-based Macs, the Mac community is abuzz with
questions about how these new options work, the best choices for
different situations, and how to avoid pesky problems that can
crop up when installing Windows on a Mac.
Joe Kissell, author of "Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger,"
has come to the rescue with "Take Control of Running Windows on
a Mac." In this 104-page ebook, Joe examines why you might want
to use your Mac to run Windows, helps you pick the best option
for running Windows in your situation, and gives detailed, real-
world advice on how to install Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop,
and Q on an Intel-based Mac.
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac.html?14@@!pt=
TRK-0034-TB831-TCNEWS>
Once you've completed the installation, the ebook explains how to
overcome common problems such as getting your mice and keyboards
working properly, sharing files across platforms, and correcting
a confusing error that appears on some Mac minis. Joe also covers
how to make a slipstream installer disc (if needed, for a Boot
Camp installation) and how to protect your Windows installation
from viruses and malware. An appendix summarizes options for
running Windows on PowerPC Macs.
The ebook includes a limited-time coupon worth $10 off the
purchase price of Parallels Desktop (Joe's recommended program
for most situations), making the ebook free if you also purchase
Parallels Desktop!
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/29-May-06
------------------------------------
by TidBITS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The first link for each thread description points to the
traditional TidBITS Talk interface; the second link points to
the same discussion on our Web Crossing server, which provides
a different look and which may be faster.
**Apple Reminds Us of Trusting, Verifying** -- Glenn Fleishman's
article about Apple's security measures for software updates
brings up questions about other ways of verifying identity and
revoking public encryption keys. (2 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3003>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/835/>
**PGP Desktop 9** -- Readers note that PGP Desktop does not yet
run on Intel-based Macs, but that GPG does. (3 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3004>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/836/>
**5th Avenue Apple Store in NYC** -- Apple opened its first 24-
hour Apple retail store last week, while Dell announced that
it would be building retail stores of its own (though customers
won't actually be able to purchase physical products that can be
taken home). (2 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3006>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/838/>
**Eyestrain problems with LCDs** -- A reader experiencing
eyestrain after using an LCD monitor receives advice about
possible causes and solutions. (9 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3007>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/839/>
**Tigre en multilingue?** Do you need to buy a localized copy of
Mac OS X in the country of the language you need? It turns out
that just one version handles it all, including spell-checking.
(4 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3008>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/840/>
**Swapping power adapters between laptops** -- Apple ships power
adapters for the MacBook and MacBook Pro that handle different
wattages. Can you recharge a MacBook Pro with a MacBook adapter?
We nail down the answer. (10 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3009>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/841/>
**Migrating out of Eudora, to IMAP** -- Chris Pepper's ongoing
search for a portable email solution just might be coming to
an end. (1 message)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=3010>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/842/>
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