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Starting January 6, check for video reports from Jim Teece and Paul Collins straight from Macworld Expo. Link will appear when ready—meanwhile here are last year's.

Next Meeting:
MacWorld Conference & Expo ’09 Revisited

Tuesday, January 13, 2008 6:00 PM
Ashland Community Hospital

6 – 7 p.m. Informative Q&A Session
Basic Users:
Open format - bring questions; we have answers!
Advanced Users:
Advanced Configuration of Your Mac

7 – 8 p.m. Demos and Presentations

Don’t miss our “Monthly Giveaway” of an Apple-related product.
Must be present to win.

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! (TV 20 coverage starts at 6:30).

December presentations:
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.

September:
Intro to Widgets and App Update: A free dashboard widget that quickly and automatically updates all installed software and provides an orderly link list, including release-notes.
Easy Crop: Inexpensive, full-featured graphic utility that easily crops, and reduces file size for simple export of any image.
Evernote: Combines a web service with software that runs on Macs, Windows, and the iPhone, to capture, sync, and share information with various devices.

August:
Time Machine - Peter DeGroot showed how easy and effective backing up (and restoring!) with Time Machine is. "This alone was worth the cost of OS X 10.5 Leopard."
VMWare Fusion - Matt Beers demonstrated Fusion's significant features to make installing and using Windows relatively easy on a Mac. Can be used with many versions of Windows and unix, although Vista support is still in beta testing.

July: Dr. Stephen Strum demonstrated several Mac Utilities and Adobe
Acrobat 9:
- DiskOrder: How to organize files.
- LaunchBar: Switch with ease between one application and another.
- TextExpander: Type in a few keystrokes to robotically type as much text as you want.
- HoudahSpot: Great search software.
- SnapNDrag: Screen shots saved as alternates to .png files.
- 2Finder: Obtain a split screen with two finder windows.
- TextSoap: Clean up all the < and > in emails.
- Adobe Acrobat 9

May:
- 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:
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 2008 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.

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.