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AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club

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Computing at Entropy House<br />

Why do Word documents cause so much<br />

trouble when they’re moved from one system<br />

to another? It’s all due to printer settings,<br />

as a member of the Linux community<br />

explains at . WYSIWYG is not WYSIWTG. One<br />

more reason to insist on PDF for finished<br />

products.<br />

What colour is the universe? According to<br />

astronomers, it’s ‘cosmic latte’ when the light<br />

from stars is combined. In the numbers:<br />

RGB 255 248 230 (fff8e6)<br />

CMYK 0 2 9 0%<br />

Macs in unexpected places<br />

department: in the latest Whitworths<br />

catalogue. Hypothesis: their<br />

advertising agency uses Macs<br />

Not the late Moggie Thatcher, but<br />

PZ Meowers, named in honour of Prof<br />

PZ Myers, author of the Pharyngula blog<br />

( for<br />

the direct link). Note the preference for<br />

the MacBook Pro over the Toshiba in the<br />

background<br />

Shades of Intel promotion: the first two Soyuz<br />

launchers for ESA at Kourou aboard MN Colibri<br />

The options: Burn, Let horse in, Ignore<br />

November <strong>2009</strong><br />

<strong><strong>Apple</strong>Sauce</strong> Page 25<br />

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