Ashland Macintosh Users Group
- Monthly Meetings
- Mini Presentations
- Email Announcements and Discussions
- Online Discussion Forum
- Exclusive Instructional Handouts
Next Meeting:
MobileMe, iPhone Basics & iPhone Applications
Tuesday, November 11, 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
iPhone Basics and MobileMe: Yvonne Fried, President, AshMUG
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.
Don’t miss our “Monthly Giveaway” of a 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).
October presentations:
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 presentations:
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 Presentations:
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 Presentation: 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 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.
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.
Recent 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
Internet services donated to ASHMUG by Open Door Networks and Project A.
AFN Providers
Live RSS Feed - Apple Hot News
Games “come of age on the iPhone 3G”
New iPod touch earns “a rare perfect score”
App Store Pick of the Week: Google Mobile
Striking it rich with iPhone
Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers
iMac delivers MRI analysis in less than 10 minutes
Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs
App Store Pick of the Week: Nine Inch Nails Revenge
iPhone and iPod touch vying with game leaders
Get organized for the holidays
iPhone now top handset in the U.S.
iPhone passes RAZR in sales
Logic and The Killers
Quick Tip of the Week: Granting guests access
iPhone second among smartphones worldwide
iPhone earns highest satisfaction score among businesspeople
iPhone “performed well in exceeding customer expectations”
“iPhone ranks first — for business customers”
iPhone tops all other smartphones in J.D. Power customer sat survey
Stream music wirelessly with AirTunes
Web Links
AFN - Ashland Fiber Network APPLE BOOKSCLIPARTDIGITAL CAMERA NEWS AND REVIEWSFREE MAC FONTSJohn Clark Mac-2-Mac - johnclark@mac.com MACINTOUCH - DAILY MAC NEWSMACUPDATE - Software UpdatesMacWorld Expo Blog - Jim TeeceMEDIA PROFESSTIONALS USER GROUPOpen Source Mac SoftwareProject ARogue MUG TIDBITSToday In AshlandTROUBLESHOOTING FOR MACSVERSIONTRACKER - Software Updates
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