December 10 , 2007: Leopard Part 2
November's meeting only scratched the surface of Leopard's 300 new
features. Nick Brazzi returns to reveal more and check out some of iLife
08 while he's about it.
Please note that the December meeting is on the 2nd Monday in the month because
of scheduling conflicts at SLAC.
November 5 , 2007: There's a new cat about
Nick Brazzi from the Palo Alto store gives the new
OS part 1 of a workout at Monday's meeting in the Redwood Room - he probably
won't manage all 300 new features in this demonstration.
Crazy scenes at the Leopard launch Oct 26, 2007
Crowds outside the SF Apple Store on Friday
night patiently waited their turn inside....
...fortified by free liquids and a sense of anticipation.....
It was worth the wait....Check it out at SMUG Monday
November 5
October 2007: Sandvox and iWork
Two great presentations at this month's session
in the Redwood Room:
Dan Wood from Karelia Software (who
brought you the original Watson program so beloved by Apple users that Apple
brought it out themselves as Sherlock) presents Sandvox, the easy-to-use web
building software that is giving iWeb and even more expensive programs a run
for its money, with both Regular and Pro editions depending on your needs and
abilities.
The Apple Store's Nick Brazzi presents iWork, the app that has the bloated form
of Microsoft Office firmly in its sights - see spreadsheets, word processing
and presentation software treated with the simple elegance that has become Apple's
trademark.
September 2007: Stuffit is coming!
Note that this month's meeting is on September
10th because Labor Day is on September 3rd. Fletcher Wu talks about
Stuffit, the program that's been around for many years providing a suite
of tools that help you access, compress, manage, protect, send and backup
all your important files and images.
More Room On Your Drive! Shrink documents up to 98% of their original
size! Free tons of space on your hard disk and your flash drive! Save more
compressed files onto CDs or DVDs! Expand Anything! StuffIt gives you access
to more than 20 different compression formats. Compress JPEG Photos and Images
by up to 30%! With its revolutionary new Image compression technology, StuffIt
achieves what no other compression product has been able to do—reduce
the size of JPEG photos and images absolutely no loss in image quality!
August 2007: iPhoto 6 & Techniques for Great
Pictures with Derrick Story
Derrick Story is a professional photographer,
writer, and instructor. He's authored "Digital Photography Hacks," "Digital
Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed.," and co-authored the popular series, "iPhoto:
The Missing Manual" with David Pogue. Derrick's photo articles are a
regular feature in Macworld Magazine.
Derrick is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly
Media. He also runs a virtual camera club at www.thedigitalstory.com that
features weekly photography podcasts, reader-submitted photos, and pro
tips.
iPhoto is a solid photo management application that ships on every Mac.
But there's more to this program than initially meets the eye. In this
talk, Derrick shows you how to become a iPhoto power user and unlock
some of its magic.
Digital photography is like any computer-related activity: the data you
input has great impact on what comes out the other side. Good data in,
good results out. You might not realize it, but your digital camera is
a sophisticated data input device (that also happens to be lots of fun).
And it becomes even more enjoyable when you learn how to tap its vast
creative potential. Derrick shows you how to capture great pictures with
your digital compact or DSLR.
July 2007: iPhone, buying a Mac
Lynda Fudold, an Apple Authorized Business
Agent, talks about how to buy a Mac. She will be showing her iPhone also,
and will discuss her experience with it.
June 2007: Quark 7.2
Lee Speight's returns to demo the latest upgrade
to the best-selling desktop publishing software.
This month's newletter contains a report on SMUG in the long-forgotten
past (OK, it was only five years ago, but that's eons in computing terms.
If you want to refresh your ailing memory, the June
2002 newletter can be perused here.
May 2007: Quicken for Mac 2007
Quicken visits the Redwood Room to show off
the latest iteration of the most popular personal finance software for the
Mac.
April 2007: Nancy Blachman's Favorite Google Features
Google is so easy to use, why attend Nancy
Blachman's presentations? If you're like many people, you use only a small
number of Google's services and features. Learn how to go beyond Google's
deceptively plain interface and take advantage of many shortcuts and underutilized
capabilities. For example, get driving directions by entering a US street
address into Google's search box. If you aren't sure whether a word is hyphenated,
search for it with a hyphen, e.g., [ long-term ];
you'll get more results. Find synonyms by preceding the term with a ~, which
is known as the tilde or synonym operator, e.g., [ google
~guide ] finds guides, tip, help, and tutorials
on using Google. For a quick summary of some of Google's features, visit
the Google
Guide cheat sheet. The more you know about
how Google works and its capabilities, the better it can serve your needs.
March 2007: Run Windows programs on your Mac
The new VMware desktop product for the Mac,
codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such
as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time
as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware's rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization
platform that is used by over four million users today.
With Fusion, you can run traditional PC applications on your Mac: if you need to run PC applications, you can now do so by leveraging the power of virtual machine technology. Pat Lee of VMWasre will be at the March 5 meeting in the Redwood Room to describe how you can do it.
February 2007: How to iMovie
Dave Strom, vice president of the SMUG Board,
has been making short videos for the past two years. He has used iMovie extensively
and has shown short videos at Macfilmmakers and Red Rock Cafe to varying
degrees of applause. On Monday February 5th Dave showed
us how to use iMovie, how not to use iMovie, and how to make short videos
fun.
January 2007: Easily create your own web site with iWeb
Ariem from the Palo Alto Apple Store presented iWeb, the powerful but less
well-known member of the iLife software family at our Tuesday 16th meeting
in Panofsky Auditorium to a small, cold but enthusiastic group.
You don't need to know HTML or buy an expensive piece of website-building software to create a great looking website in a very short time - including slide shows, blogs, podcasts and movie pages.
