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All around the country there the fact that my toes are are organizations that put together -I soaked and freezing and that :::r groups for special projects, from I've lost feeling in them. But at CD USE YOUR beautifying the landscaping of a <; least I've had about nine hours CREATIVE SPIRIT developmental center to helping to get used to the sensation. U> TO GIVE sort food for the Food Bank. I've 0 And then, of course, there's SOMETHING done both of these; both activities :J the hillside I'm sitting on-the BACK TO took only a few hours on the week­ -I constant rain and the constant end, and I got to meet some new :::r THE COMMUNITY milling about of 20,000 feet people who hadn't heard any of my :J co have turned it into chocolate jokes yet. (Although by the end of pudding. But then the next the afternoon they'd had more than band starts playing-Tom Petty their fill, I'd wager.) and the Heartbreakers-and As Mac users, we have special skills that many organizations are everything's OK. Like the last dying for. We know how to use a half-dozen bands to play that computer, a skill many in our soci­ afternoon, they're great. ety lack. Users groups are always As the sound rises and my in search of instructors to help new lawn chair sinks further into the members get the knack of using mud and another accidental their Macs. Many schools, public bodysurfer skids past me, I remind and private, want mentors to help myself it's all for a good cause. students after class with typing, Because this is more than a regu­ programming, graphics, even lar concert-it's a charity concert. reading and writing. And most benefiting the Bridge School, a schools have a significant invest­ local school for children with ment in Mac systems. severe communication disorders. Even senior centers often look Caring and Sharing for volunteers to help introduce their Standing there in the rain got me thinking about charity. clientele to the intimidating world of the Internet. Imagine This last year has been especially good to me. as it has the sense of accomplishment you would have if you to much of the Mac world. And I've begun to develop a showed an older person how to use e-mail to keep in real appreciation for exactly how good it can feel to touch with grandchildren and other distant family. give back to your community when your community has Make whatever you do a social event. Get your given you so much. friends together and form a team-you'll be amazed Donating your time, sharing of your knowledge, how easy it can be to get started. It may even turn contributing your old equipment. even doing something into a regular happening. as simple as taking a walk, all these things can help Working Assets others and give you a real sense of accomplishment. Mac I've often thought of turning my garage into a Museum of users like to think of themselves as being slightly more Macintosh Technology. From that original l 28K Mac evolved. Well, nothing could be more evolved than to give of yourself. Think of it as another way Mac users can continues www.macworld.com January 2001 7 case I've been meaning to turn into right foot. Step Two: Put right foot in Macworld an aquarium for ten years now front of left foot. Step Three: Repeat (apologies to Andy Ihnatko, but he Step One and Step Two as fast as you was not the first person to think of can for as long as you can. turning a Mac into an aquarium) to It was only recently that I found the half dozen Power Computing a way to put running to a use other VP Of CONTINT/IDITOI IN CHllf Andrew Gore clones in various states of disrepair, than making up for a wasted adoles­ IXICUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THI VP OF CONTINI Shone Clark my storage shelves are packed with cence. And that is running for charity. IDITOR, MACWOILD.COM Jason Snell -I the flotsam of a Mac aficionado with I found that. without much effort. EXICUTIV! IDtTOI Scholle Sawyer Mcfarland :T more .dollars than sense. And we I could find a !OK race almost every SINIOI IDITOIS. llVllWS Lindo Comer, CD won't even talk about the Newtons, month within driving distance of David Weiss < except to say I have at least one of my home that I could participate in SENIOR IDITOR, MACWORLD.COM Lisa Schmeiser (/) SINIOR IDITOI.. HOW.JO Terri Stone every model ever created. including and raise money for a good cause. 0 ASSOCIATE IDITOIS lotus Abrams, some that never shipped. From the Senior Center in Half :i Jennifer Berger, I've recently started the process of Moon Bay, California, to The Mathew Honan, -I :T divesting my Mac assets, because I've Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Kelly Lunsford, Philip Michaels, :i discovered that many organizations there are races and walkathons ca Jonotho n Se ff out there are delighted to receive going on year-round. ASSISTANT EDITORS Brett Lorson, machines I've long since cast off. My Best part is, you don't even have Adrienne Robillard garage has become like the Island of to spend your own money if you IDITORIAL ASSISTANT Bonnie Huie Misfit Toys, and I'm playing Rudolph. don't want to. Many races encourage CONTRIBUTING EDITORS True. I have no real use for a PowerPC participants to collect money from Henry Bortman, Christopher Breen, Adam C. Engst, Bruce Fraser, 60!-based clone, but my local public sponsors, usually friends and cowork­ Jim Heid, Ted landau, Deke McClelland, Tom Negrina, Nancy school is still trying to get by with ers, who agree to donate a certain Peterson, David Pogue, Stephan Somogyi, Franklin N. Tessler classrooms full of Mac Ilcx machines. sum based on the distance you cover. LAB (W'nere do they find the gerbils to You'd be amazed how much money DIRECTOR Of PRODUCT IVALUATION Kristina De Nike keep those antiques running?) you can raise just by going for a walk TUT MANA.OH Jomes Galbraith If you have a Mac you no longer in the park with a few thousand SINIOR LAI ANALYST Jeffy K. Milstead use because it doesn't have a G3, or friendly striders. LAI ANALYST Gil Loyola enough storage or enough RAM or If the spirit of the Macintosh is ASSOCtAn TICMNICAL ANALYST Ulyssis Bravo LAI ADMINISTRATOR Jason Cox an AirPort slot. don't dump it at your one of creativity and individualism, next garage sale, donate it. I can we should remember that we're not COPY EDIT almost guarantee your local church, the only ones who should benefit MANAGING IDITOR Jennifer Scholl community center. even public from those traits. W'nether we're ASSISTANT MANAGING IDITOR Charles Purdy COPY EDITORS Dione Ollis, school will be happy to take it off giving Macs away, teaching people Sue Voelkel your hands and give you a great tax how to use computers more effec­ write-off in the process. tively, or just using the Web to find ART AND DESIGN a nearby charity to support. this time DESIGN DIRECTOR Sharon Anderson Donate Your Body ASSOCIATl DESIONH Jackie Goodmon of year we should all turn some of I'm what you might call coordination DUION ASSOCIATES Amy Conger, our creative energies toward help­ impaired. I like sports. but lack the Alissa Moch physical coordination to do anything ing other people. m PHPRISS CONSULTANT Stephen Sugg but be an easy target in most team ANDREW GORE is editor in chief MACBUY.COM or individual activities. Ifs pretty sad. ASSISTANT PRODUCH Cathy Begien of Macworld. To comment on this actually. The one sport I do excel at is running. Because, really, how much column, please visit the Vision Thing INTERNATIONAL EDITORS coordination does it really take to forum at www.macworld.com/ Steven Noble, Australia; Bernard le Du, Fronce; Andreas run? Step One: Put left foot in front of columns/visionthing/ Borchert, Germany; Enrico Lotti, Italy; Yoshie Mariya, Japan; Tomosz Bitner, Poland; Doniel de Blas, Spain; Nils HolmlOv, Sweden; Anderson Huong, Taiwan; Bohottin Apok, Turkey; Simon Jory, United Kingdom 8 January 2001 :www. macworld .com