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Ashmug Picnic
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
About 4:30 PM
Yvonne's Home..........
to reach her for directions, please call:
eight four zero five four eight seven

Planned presentations include:

Eating, Drinking, and BBQing in the non-digital, non-virtual, actual inside world.
This is a thank you to all the members and attendees who come ever so faithfully to our monthly meetings and contribute to our knowledge and understanding of all things Mac.
If you'd like to come, email Yvonne for details. (see the Member page for her email.)

Normal meeting schedule (except June picnic):
All meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month.
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Split session: Basic and advanced questions and answers.
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Presentations
Where: Ashland Community Hospital Conference Room
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.

(Except this month--no webcast expected for the picnic:) Watch the live webcast on the web or in QuickTime Player or tune in AshlandTV20

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

May presentations:
- Apple TV - Rent or buy video with a click of your remote - browse from iTunes or your TV: movies (standard/HD), videos, TV shows, YouTube, podcasts, music, and photos - all in a searchable database shown on your wide-screen television.
- Miro - Turn your computer into an internet TV video player. This free application automatically downloads videos from RSS-based channels.
- Joost - Free software to view online video via broadband internet connection.

April presentations:
Omnifocus™
Omnifocus: GTD (based on the methods of David Allen in his book: “Getting Things Done”) is a management tool for organizing tasks and projects so that you can “spend more time with things that matter to you most.”

ScanSnap Scanners
These sheetfed scanners, scan into searchable PDF, a key tool for paperless organization.

At our March meeting, Alan Oppenheimer showed the new MacBook Air (and later his name came up as one of the session presenters in Macworld Expo Encore). Matthew Beers kicked off our Mini Presentations series with quick demos of Fluid, coconutBattery, and Whatsize. Yvonne Fried presented an encore of Macworld Expo highlights by showing the literature she scanned with her ScanSnap.

All Ashmug members are invited to do their own Mini Presentation of their favorite Mac software. Mini Presenters are entered in a drawing for one year's Premium access to Lynda.com online video training (used in our Master Your Mac class), a $375 value. Mini Presentations are easy , we'll help you get started - just contact us and say what you'd like to show.

Fluid™ A site-specific solution complete with it’s own Dock icon, menu bar, and separators for browser activity that helps corral your favorite web applications, i.e. gMail, Facebook, Basecamp, Deliciouis, webMail, and more.

coconutBattery™ A small freeware utility that reads the current charge and load-cycles of your Mac laptop battery.

Whatsize™ A small freeware application that reveals space allocation and file sizes on your hard drive.

The February meeting featured Joe Kissell live from Paris via iChat video, giving a great talk on Mac OS X operation and maintenance. See his most recent ebook.

Our January meeting was titled: MUGS, BUTTONS, & ALL THAT PIZAZZ

The Pizazz of Pages
Get the skinny on Apple's iWork '08 Layout and Word Processing Software
Produce, present, and publish your work with pizazz.
Presenter: Seasoned writer and public relations pro - Liza Christian.

Buttoned Up:
Get the hang of Security Enhancements in Mac's new OS Leopard.
Presenter: Internationally recognized Mac security expert and developer of DoorStopX - Alan Oppenheimer.

AFN announces new super-speed service: The Ashland Fiber Network's cable modem Internet service now has new, higher speed access services. Get download speeds up to 3x faster, and upload speeds up to 40x faster than the current AFN "Basic" account.

Information provided by Open Door Networks | AFN ISP List

The Master Your Mac class sessions completed in December, 2007 were a great success. Our attendees are now better-equipped to make the most of Mac OS X and iApps such as iPhoto.

Special thanks to all our volunteer facilitators who put in many hours to make the classes work!

Stay tuned for news on future sessions...

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.