May 5, 2008 Derrick Story
O'Reilly's Digital Media Evangelist returns to
the Redwood Room with many tips and tricks for improving our digital photography. More
on Aperture, iPhoto & who knows what else.
April 7, 2008 iLife
Sure, we've all dabbled in iPhoto,
and even maybe edited a few clips here and there inside of iMovie. However,
you can take your media to the next level by integrating all of the applications
in your entire iLife Suite! Shawne Benson, creative at the Apple Store
Palo Alto, will explore some of the major features of the latest iLife
bundle and how they all connect. She will start by showing how to take
iPhoto assets into iMovie. From there, we will take that content and send
it to Garageband. There we can implement some advanced audio editing techniques
for the footage. Afterwards, she will send that presentation to iWeb in
order to display her content over the net.
March 3, 2008 Reunion
Pat Burrow presents Reunion 9, the best-rated genealogy
software for the Mac, and will demonstrate some of the features that have
made this program so popular among family historians. Not only is Reunion
easy to use for data entry and report generation, it provides the family
researcher with useful tools for productivity. You can document, store
and display information about your family and show relationships in an
elegant, graphic form.
February 4, 2008 Slingbox & Storyist
Two presentations! Melvin Prasad brings us Slingbox,
endorsed by many tech journalists such as David Pogue.
Sling Media's first product, internationally acclaimed, Emmy award- winning
Slingbox™,
has literally transformed the way we are able to watch TV. The
Slingbox turns any Internet-connected PC or laptop, Mac, or
smartphone into your home television. That means you can watch TV
virtually anywhere in the world. And
he'll be giving one away to to a lucky SMUG member! Plus,
Steve Shepherd from Storyist Software will
be with us to show how it can help us to write our memoirs, filmscripts,
or even the next Great American Novel.
January 15, 2008 SMUG at Macworld
Board members Ric Smith & Dave Strom at the
Mac Users Booth on Opening Day.
It seemed bigger and more tiring than ever. The week started both well and badly - we had a great time at the Users Group booth but a lot of people were seriously fed up after waiting for an hour in the cold to get in. But as the week went on it became less crowded and more fun (you could actually get to talk to people). It seems there was less play stuff this year, more work-related software, except for the continued ubiquity of iPod skins - do we really need 30 companies selling these? The MacBook Air was, if not great, certainly cool. The AppleTV demo on the beautiful flat HD screens certainly made you lust to have both. There were fewer guests this year, too, it seemed, but David Pogue as usual was a standout, both on his "Talk show" and at the O'Reilly booth later that day - they probably need to have some guests to attract a younger crowd, like Kevin Smith last year. We had some great meetings with display vendors, many of whom were there not specifically to sell but to help us get better understanding of their products (the camera booths Nikon and Canon stand out in this regard). The coolest booth we visited was the Zap exhibit's electric car - not really an Apple-related product at all but we're not complaining!
January 7, 2008 Keeble & Shuchat Photography
Who, what were, are Keeble & Shuchat?
They've been a Palo Alto institution and resource for all things photographic
for as long as anyone can remember. This month SMUG member Edward Clark and
his colleagues Mary McPherson and Tony Donatello will be in the Redwood Room
to talk about who or what Keeble and Shuchat is, how it got started and what
they offer.
