It’s gonna rain! Who’da thunk it?
We’ll meet at our usual place – the Veternan’s Memorial Building at 16th & Willamette at the usual time. 6:30 for the Macintosh Mystery Hour. We’ll be winging it for the main meeting. Dick has some iPhone Applications to show off and we have some other goodies to dispose of.
Bring your questions. Bring your answers. Bring a friend!
This month well just relax and have a picnic. This meeting is open to members and their families and significant others. Members can also bring friends. We’ll light the grill at 5:30.
The place is Charnel Mulligan Park at 17th & Charnelton. That’s 2 blocks west of the Veterans’ Building where we normally meet. It’s a beautiful urban park with shaded eating space and lots of space for the kids to play. There’s a small market (Cornucopia) down the street if you forget anything and Safeway is 3 blocks away if you REALLY forget something.
EMUG will provide hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, buns, condiments, soda and paper plates. Bring side dishes, chips or salad. Bring your own cutlery (We’ll have some spares available).
Bring a friend and bring a smile!
After a bit of a rocky start, Apple has the iTunes servers up and running and the upgrade to iPhone 2.0 is working. The iPhone App Store is open and has quite a number of really useful apps available.
The Macintosh Mystery Hour precedes the main meeting. Bring your questions. Bring your answers. Bring a friend!
When we began to plan the content for June’s meeting we had no idea that MAC|LIFE Magazine was planning the same thing. While our lists did overlap, we came up with several varying preferences within the group in attendance. Thanks to all for your participation. Deanne DuFresne sent me several ideas, some of which we didn’t touch on during the meeting. They are part of the list.
INTERNET
PRODUCTIVITY
MEDIA
UTILITIES
GAMES
Our June meeting will explore shareware and freeware programs for your Mac. Some of these little programs do the most amazing things. We’ll focus on three main areas with occasional side-trips.
Utilities: Imagewell; Pixelmator; GraphicConverter; Adium; VLC; Handbrake; Senuti; Mouseposé.
Web: Stumbleupon and FlikrSpy
Games: Battle for Wesnoth
This is only a partial list of the goodies we’ll explore. Feel free to suggest others.
As always, the Macintosh Mystery Hour precedes the main meeting. Bring your questions. Bring your answers. Bring a friend!
Here’s the link to the PDF Dick Lennox used as the guide for our May meeting.
Dick’s PDF on Kerry’s iDisk. The file is iPhoto Tips.pdf. Click the down-arrow at the left right side of the screen to download the file.
Thanks for a great presentation, Dick!
The Mac Store is opening a new store at the Clackamas Town Center. Our friend Jeff Scoble sent a link to the Grand Opening Specials. Pay close attention to the LaCie 500GB hard drive offer. Those of you planning to use Time Machine for backup can really get going for not much money! You DO back up, don’t you? ?? ??? !!!!
We’ll focus on digital photography for the May meeting using a “Soup to Nuts” approach. iPhoto plays well with all the iLife and iWork applications and spend a little time exploring this. There’s also a new Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 to review and also news about Apple’s Aperture2. We’ve got some printing tips and some new plug-ins and more.
We’ll show a few photo sharing sites, including Flickr, Kodak and others. Send us your favorite Digital Photo site links (please annotate with a short sentence description)
Bring your photo prints to share, or links to your photo sites.
The Macintosh Mystery Hour precedes the main meting. Bring your questions. Bring your answers. Bring a friend!
Maybe not officially, but it should be!
Steve Jobs gave us an idea of the gravity of the situation when introducing Time Machine a year ago. Four percent of computer users actually back up adequately. If you ask yourself the question, “What will it cost me to reconstruct my data for the last day, or week, or month?” then you begin to appreciate the value of automated backup.
We’ll hopefully have a Time Capsule to play with. They seem to fly in and out of stock which indicates that many users already have asked themselves the “Cost” question mentioned previously. We’ll also demonstrate the set up process for Time Machine.
The Macintosh Mystery hour precedes the main meeting as always.
Bring your questions. Bring your answers. Bring a friend!
Dick Lennox led us on a real romp through some of the best features of the Leopard OS and the iLife applications. He recommended an article by Robin Williams on the Peachpit Press web site. She explores the 10 most overlooked features of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. This is a real eye-opener! I opened each of the mentioned programs and tinkered along with the article. I’m inspired to play with the iLife applications and the system just to find other gems. Thanks Dick!
We discussed the need, or lack thereof, for antivirus software on our Macs. One article I forgot to mention is on the Tidbits site. Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software, by Rich Mogull, gives a good overview of the issues and dangers involved.
Jeff Scoble from The Mac Store gave us a brief update on the state of the wireless systems in the Veterans’ Memorial Building. They rearranged the wiring and replaced the main hub. They reset the broadcast bands to avoid conflicts internally and externally. They did everything but jack up the hood ornament and run a new car under it! The result is great connectivity and blazing throughput. We had 13 laptops plus a couple of iPhones and some other devices using the wireless network without a hitch. Thanks guys!
Rod Jensen was preparing a short presentation for the future on Spaces and it happened that a portion of his presentation dovetailed into a question posed from the floor during the Macintosh Mystery Hour. He folded a portion of his content into the discussion seamlessly. Pretty good for a first time presenter who wasn’t even working directly on his chosen topic. Thanks Rod!
