GVSU Apple Club

September 24th

Posted by: gvsumac on: October 3, 2008

Hello all,

yes this is quite belated, but here are the topics and links referred to in the meeting. I’m trying to get things a bit more up to date with the website this year. So hopefully only these few posts will be out of date.  If you miss a meeting (you really shouldn’t, but just in case) you can hopefully find all the cool websites we looked at, or download and figure out the interesting programs we found.

Movies we want to watch as a group some time:

  • Taxi Driver
  • Monty Python ?
  • Helvetica
  • Invader Zim
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley
  • Any other suggestions, leave it in the comment box.

    Quicklook – the OS X feature that gives you instant previews of common document types. Try selecting a photo on your computer, and without opening the file, hit your space bar; that’s quicklook.

    Some dandy hotkeys for doing a screen capture (taking an image of what’s on your screen)

    command + shift + 4 = use cursor to make a selection of desktop to ‘capture’

    command + shift + 4 + space = hover over the window you want to take a picture of

    command + shift + 3 = image of whole desktop


    “stacks” – a folder on your dock

    Open up a finder window and drag a folder (such as your documents or applications) to the doc near the trash can and it should let you set it there. Once placed, clicking on it will give an expanded view of the folder contents. Handy for getting your docs and such quickly!

    …Rambled about iPods again

    Meeting officially over, followed by comments, questions, random fun

    • We want to know how to send student email to mail.app
    • Time machine
    • iWork?
    • Grand Rapids Apple user group
    • No pants on the bus!!??!
    • Watched some old youtube clips

    Thaaaat’s all, folks!

    Oh PS… that really MESSED UP clip by Rob on Vimeo.

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