August 08
June 08
May 08 Very sorry that you could not make it to the meeting last night. I hope that everyone has power now. It was a really great meeting even though not too many were here. Bruce did the demo on video conferencing. Don was at his home, Bruce was here in the basement, Barb was in the living room, and I was in the computer room. We were all connected at the same time, as per picture. Don,Bruce,and I use .Mac. Barb uses AIM. but it all worked. If you are using Leopard and the newest iChat you can send files, pictures,etc. It was a lot of fun.
We are taking the month of July off.
May 08
Bruce Mitchell was our speaker and the subject was iWorks which contains Keynote,Numbers, and Pages. It was great because he used Keynote to show us all about Numbers. So it was 2 for 1 talk.
He also discussed using http://dealmac.com/ and http://www.pricegrabber.com/ to find good prices. On dealmac there was a all in one printer 'Brother MFC 240C' for $39.98.
A member was having trouble with wmv files.With Flip4Mac, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) download free from versiontracker.
If you would like a neat shareware weather program on your computer, take a look at:
Weather Dock http://www.alwintroost.nl/
Hyperdither is a free OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white:
http://www.tinrocket.com/software/hyperdither/r is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white.
Jean Casey brought a book of great pictures she had taken in Central America, that she talked about at our last meeting.Thanks to Irene and Jean for the goodies they brought.
For more info go to http://www.macapplepie.org/
Next meeting will be June 10,2008, the subject will be Video conferencing.
April 08
We had a great meeting and very informative. A great job by Don Dubois who demoed Popcorn 3. He also told about the Dymo Disc printer .
Eric talked about Visual Hub an application that will compress a file. Pacifist an app that will let you install only one app. What Size an app that will tell size of a file. Paint Brush a little app that you can paint pictures. and Yasu an app the can help your computer if it is running slow. You can find all of these on Version Tracker.
This is info from Barb Thornton:
DesignPro for Mac will be available as a free download at avery.com/designpro in May 2008…so "Mac" your calendars to try it out.
This is what John Spates told us about at the meeting.
The iTunes Podcast is a Macworld Podcast titled Time Capsule, dated 3/26/08.
I opened iTunes; selected Podcasts; searched for Macworld; Clicked on Macworld Live. In the list I found Time Capsule.
Thank to Irene for the great cookies.
February 08
Brian was our speaker in February and he talked about System Preferences. It was very interesting and showed us things we did not know about system preferences.
January 08
John Spates was our speaker for the meeting in January. He told about iPhone. It was very informative.
We also looked at:
Delicious Library http://www.delicious-monster.com/
PulpMotion http://www.pulpmotion.com/try-video-photo-slideshow.html
SoftSkies http://www.soundspectrum.com/softskies/upgrade.html