Here's the May 2008 SMMUG newsletter! This issue includes:

"Airfoil Plays Home Audio Wirelessly"
Club News
Joy of Tech cartoon
Puzzle of the month
More
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Popcorn is a DVD and video file copying and conversion program. Let’s look at the program and see what it can and cant do:

Source files: Popcorn can duplicate a non-encrypted DVD (including all menus, audio, and extras); copy from QuickTime, MPEG2, DivX, or XVID files, and from VIDEO_TS folders. Popcorn can also transfer from TiVo DVR recorders...

If you have owned a Mac for awhile, you should be familiar with the program Stuffit. It has been around for ages-probably since the first Macs were created. If you are new to the Mac you may not know what Stuffit does. It is a compression/archival program. It will take your bulky files or folders and compress them for easy storage or transition over the internet.

VMware Fusion is a Macintosh OS X application that allows the user to install Windows operating systems from Windows NT to Windows Vista. This review only covers Windows XP.

(It states that there are over 60 guest operating systems supported. The literature from VMware states that it also supports several other 32 Bit operating systems such as Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu Linux and more. It also states that it supports many different 64-Bit operations systems).

Are you looking for a word processor but would rather not go to the dark side and purchase MS Word®? Then check out Mellel from RedleX - a small company located in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is a full-featured multilingual word processor that is designed to run on Mac OS X. It will import MS Word documents (with a little tweaking) and is a lot cheaper than MS Word.

We are working on getting Adobe here to give us a demo. Watch here for more info to come.

Your Board!

NoteBook helps you store, search, share and organize bits of information that you have gleaned from various sources. NoteBook documents look like a spiral notebook with tabbed dividers [though there is an option to remove the spiral and have it appear as a simple note pad]. When you first open NoteBook you are presented with a list of pre-defined Templates that are divided between four categories. Each category has several subcategories...

Flash Optimizer is a program that will compress Flash SWF files. According to Eltima Software, Flash Optimizer can compress your files up to 70% of its normal size. This is accomplished by the use of algorithms of vectors, shapes, Z-buffer, morphing and fonts. Flash Optimizer optimizes the whole SWF file including curves, zero objects, ZLib optimization, etc. There are over 50 compression options that are both predefined and customizable.