December 19, 2000, Annual Holiday Party and Chinese RaffleWe will have a Chinese Raffle at the 2000 holiday party December 19th. It's a lot of fun for everyone. All of us can be participants just by looking around our home or office for Apple Computer related products that have lost their usefulness to us. The Chinese Raffle works similarly to a swap meet but a little more organized and a lot fairer. All PMUG members (you will have to have your name tag on) will be given 3 raffle tickets and the opportunity to buy additional tickets @ 12 tickets for $5.00. Starting at 6 p.m. the raffle will be ready to start receiving any items you bring to the meeting that you wish to donate. You will have approximately 2 hours to drop off your donation and make your choices. At 6 p.m. we will also start selling additional raffle tickets. Each person will then place a ticket in little cups adjoining each of the items on display. Than around 8 p.m. I'll go around and pick out a ticket from each cup and award the winner their prize. Everyone has an equal chance to win. Of course the more tickets you buy the more choices you will be able to make. The key to a great Chinese raffle are the goodies the members bring in. If that older version of PageMaker is just taking up space on your shelf think about bringing it to the raffle. If your item needs some explanation please provide an index card with information about the item. Have all items marked with your last name. We will be setting up an area in the front of the hall for the raffle, where the speakers usually stand for their presentation. As you come into the meeting please bring your items down to me at the front of the tables we will have two additional helpers so everyone will be taken care of. Bring as many items as you want, books, accessories, software and small easy to carry hardware. Just make sure your item is taken by the end of the evening if not you must take it back we cannot leave anything in the auditorium when we leave. All proceeds will go to PMUG and are used for new hardware, presentations, raffle and library needs. All PMUG members are encouraged to attend and participate. November 14, 2000, Photoshop DemonstrationMike Litwin will demonstrate Adobe Photoshop by illustrating how he uses it for Web design. October 10, 2000, How to be a Mac Power UserJimi Oleksiak, of the Rutgers University Computer Service, will tell us how to go beyond the basics with tips and tricks to use the Mac more efficiently. Topics include keeping your Mac running at optimal performance level, configuring system settings for efficiency, customizing the Mac, care and feeding of the hard drive, anti-virus protection, using various disk utilities, and more. September 12, 2000, Mapping programs from Map ResourcesBob Dahl, President of Map Resources (formerly Cartesia Software), of Lambertville, NJ will give a presentation highlighting several new products in their line of digital maps for use in graphic design. He will also discuss the shifting landscape of marketing digital products since so many magazines and catalogs have died (or nearly died), and the Internet has taken over as a means of reaching customers, providing product information and technical support, and delivering digital products. August 8, 2000, Macworld Wrap-Up, Apple Rep. Dave Marra, User Group UniversityThis month's meeting will cover the Macworld Expo! We will go over Apple's new announcements and hear reports from members who attended. Apple Representative Dave Marra, who spoke at our June meeting, will also be here. He should have at least some of Apple's new products with him or lots of information on them. Megan Peterson will have attended a new User Group University, put together by Apple and the User Group Network, with which we are affiliated/certified, so she will tell us what she learned.
July 11, 2000, Susan Fulton of the New York Times, Voice RecognitionSusan Fulton of the New York Times has been invited to speak and Ray Laue is obtaining a copy of IBM's Via Voice (voice recognition) and may give us a low-down on this new advancement of the technology on the Mac. Our meeting will be the week before NYC Macworld, so a wrap-up will have to wait until August. June 13, 2000, AirPort and Mac OS XApple Representative Dave Marra will speak about AirPort wireless technology which is in the iBook, iMac, and G4 Macs. He will also give us a glimpse of OS X, the Mac's next generation operating system. May 9, 2000, Digital Photography and ScannersAndy Baird will give a presentation on digital cameras. In addition, Al Medwin will demonstrate his scanner. April 11, 2000, Music on the MacintoshProfessor Joel Phillips of Westminster Choir College will demonstrate music creation (and perhaps even music instruction) programs for the Macintosh. March 14, 2000, Digital Video on the iMacTerry Wilson will be showing Final Cut Pro and iMovie on an iMac DV Special Edition. "I have made half-hour videos using both programs. What FireWire, DV, a 13GB hard drive, and either of these programs can do is nothing short of amazing." Don't miss PMUG's digital video night! February 8, PMUG's Web Site and Digital Imaging"Music on the Mac," originally scheduled for February, has been postponed. Instead, we will start with a demonstration of PMUG's new web site and a short HTML tutorial for members who have volunteered to maintain the site. The remainder of the evening will be the first in a two-part series on digital imaging. Tonight we will cover scanners, Photoshop, and film-to-CD transfers. January 11, Video Conferencing with Keith SproulKeith and his twin brother have given us some very unusual demonstrations-of portable GPS systems and the huge amount of astronomical data available on CD from NASA to amateur astronomers. This month they will demonstrate video conferencing (telephony) on the Mac. | ||||
