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Ashland Macintosh Users Group
  • Monthly Meetings
  • Mini Presentations
  • Email Announcements and Discussions
  • Online Discussion Forum
  • Exclusive Instructional Handouts

Next Meeting:
Tuesday, July 14, 2008 6:00 PM
Ashland Community Hospital


Our June meeting featured our own Matt Beers on "Performance and your Mac." If you missed it, you can watch his entire presentation right here! Enjoy...

AshMUG: Performance and Your Mac from Paul Collins on Vimeo.


Matt explained the behind-the-scenes ways in which you can monitor your Macs performance, and diagnose performance issues. Plus, maintain your Mac using OnyX,  a free utility that runs a variety of tasks, configures applications and cleans up data helping to streamline your Mac.


6 – 7 p.m. Informative Q&A Session

7 – 8 p.m. Demos and Presentations



All meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month.
To attend, park in the lower lot and enter in the main entrance.  Go up the steps and turn left. ASHMUG is in the last meeting room on the left at the end of the hall.  The hospital receptionist will direct you if necessary.

Watch the live webcast on the web or in QuickTime Player or tune into AshlandTV20

Be sure to tune in at the same time as the meeting - it's live!.

May
Guy Kawasaki!

April
iLife and iWork '09
: Apple Senior System Engineer
Dave Marra explored many of the features in Apple's Digital Suites.

March presentation:
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus author of, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac for Dummies, gave great tips and feature info for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.

February presentation:
FileMaker Data Base Software: Manage Projects, People & Assets
FileMaker database developer Stefan Chauveau demonstrated the award-winning easy-to-use database software from FileMaker.  He told great stories about applying this powerful, flexible database to businesses from surgeons to tailors, while explaining the easiest ways to manage people, projects, assets and more.
January presentation:
MacWorld Conference & Expo ’09 Revisited
Check out the video reports from Jim Teece and Paul Collins from the expo.

December:
Intro to WiFi / Airport Networks Basic Setup
Glenn Fleishman, author Take Control books, Contributing Editor TidBITS, The Economist, Macworld, Popular Science, The New York Times
Links: Airport Express, Airport Extreme
ClamXAV - free virus checker Mac OSX  
Peter DeGroot, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor Texas A&M, author of many Ashmug Handouts, all-around Mac “wizard.”
Link: ClamXAV

November:
iPhone Applications
iEnvision
: Alan Oppenheimer, Internet security expert, this fun app puts you clicks away from great artists, books, photos, and comic strips.
Gesture, iGraffiti, Twittelator Pro and TalkingPics: Andrew Stone, Software Architect, Stone Design  - digital paintings from your photos; twitterers will find a new dimension in communication, and; take your audio recordings, photos and notes into collections.

AshMUG's November Drawing: Terry Wilson, entrepreneur, web designer, and active member in the Princeton, NJ PMUG (http://www.pmug-nj.org), donated her clever customed-designed "Tight Jacket" fitted for an iPod or iPhone. See more of Terry's designs here: http://TightJacket.com and http://terryfic.com and thank her for her generosity.

October:
Get the Most out of Your Mac
Apple Support Sites: Mac 101 , Mac Higher Learning
iChat
with its cool new features will benefit and captivate you and your iChat buddies.
Skype - jam-packed with fun features that let you IM and make calls from your computer to landlines and cell phones around the world.


Ashmug email lists

Ashmug-info: To receive announcements from Ashmug, send a blank email to ashmug-info-on@lists.ashmug.com. Ashmug-info is our one-way list for announcements of upcoming events and useful information.

Ashmug-talk: To read and join in discussions with Ashumg members, send a blank email to ashmug-talk-on@lists.ashmug.com. Ashmug-talk is our many-to-many list for technical questions from and to our Mac-using members.


Useful links:

Lynda.com, the video instruction site used in our 2007 Master Your Mac classes.

Check it out: AshlandTV20 is a new web/cable hybrid channel with local user-created content, available to AFN TV subscribers and on the web.

Interesting websites about the iPhone (and related touch screen technology):

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone.htm

http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Ejhan/ftirtouch/

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

More useful links


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  • Download iTunes U programming directly to your iPhone

  • Keeping Earth out of harm’s way

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  • Web Links
  • AFN - Ashland Fiber Network
  • APPLE BOOKS
  • CLIPART
  • DIGITAL CAMERA NEWS AND REVIEWS
  • FREE MAC FONTS
  • John Clark Mac-2-Mac - johnclark@mac.com
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  • MACUPDATE - Software Updates
  • MacWorld Expo Blog - Jim Teece
  • MEDIA PROFESSTIONALS USER GROUP
  • Open Source Mac Software
  • Project A
  • Rogue MUG
  • TIDBITS
  • Today In Ashland
  • TROUBLESHOOTING FOR MACS
  • VERSIONTRACKER - Software Updates


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