Here’s a great deal:  If you’re even thinking about switching from a PC to a Mac, here’s “an offer you can’t refuse.”  The Mac SIG’s guru Bill Euler will personally assist you in the use of the Belkin Switch-to-Mac Cable, which our club owns.  This cable will help you quickly and easily transfer important files, folders, and settings from a PC to a Mac computer.  Using the cable makes it easy to transfer your music, photos, Internet favorites, Outlook Express e-mail messages, contacts, and more.  Tell the Switch-to-Mac Utility what you would like to transfer, and it will do all the work of finding the files and putting them in their appropriate place on the Mac.  Interested?  You can reach Bill at BNJINLV@cox.net  or 233-2351.

iPhone functions you might not know about:

The iPhone has numerous settings hidden away in the Settings menus.  If you haven’t taken the time to dig through them, you may not be aware of several features that you can turn on/off or adjust on your iPhone.

These are for the iPhone 2.1 software, so if you don’t find them on your iPhone, you may need to upgrade.

1. Enable Call Forwarding - You can quickly and easily enable call forwarding on your iPhone. Simply touch Settings>Phone>Call Forwarding.
   Turn Call Forwarding on, then enter the number you’d like your calls to forward to.
    

2. Adjust the speed of your Audiobooks - If you feel like the narrator of your Audiobook selections is talking too slow, or too fast, you can easily go in and change the speed at which they speak.  Touch Settings>iPod>Audiobook Speed.  Here you can make the Audiobooks slower, faster, or set them back to their normal speed.
    

3. Adjust TV Out and Closed Captions Options - in the same iPod Section you can select to turn Closed Captioning On or Off and you can adjust how your video will play on an external display like a television. Widescreen On/Off and NSTC/PAL Settings are right at your finger tips.
    

4. Adjust Capitalization and Caps Lock Settings - If you’re annoyed by the Auto-Capitalization feature of the iPhone keyboard, or want to shout at people by using all Caps, you can easily adjust these settings in:  Settings>General>Keyboard
    

5. Force an iPhone into restore mode - This function is not located in the settings, but can be helpful if your iPhone has locked up and can’t seem to get back into working order.  All you have to do is Turn Off your iPhone (press the Sleep Button+Home button until the phone shuts off), then connect your iPhone to your PC or Mac, and open iTunes.  Once you have iTunes open hold down the Home button and iTunes will prompt you to perform a software restore.

Neat shortcut for word processing programs:  To delete more quickly, you can use Option+Delete and instead of deleting a letter at a time, it will delete a word at a time.  It’s a quicker and more precise way of deleting text.

(Note:  I’ve checked this out on Apple Text Edit, Microsoft Word, and Bean.  It may work on other word processors as well.  On some keyboards, you may have to use Optiion+Backspace instead of Option+Delete).

“iSmiles” – For your amusement, Mac lovers, I’m hoping each of these links gives you a smile. 

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Sun City Summerlin Macintosh Users Group – our Computer Club’s Mac SIG, meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month in the Classroom at 6:30 PM.  Come to learn, ask questions, and share ideas with fellow Mac users.