December 14, 2004, Annual Holiday Party and RaffleOur holiday party will take place at the normal meeting place in room A-10 of Jadwin Physics Building on Princeton University. This year promises a HUGE amount of items to bid on. We already have 300 items! Items for the silent auction and the pot-luck dinner will start arriving around 6 P.M. Dinner will be served around 7P.M. The silent auction will begin at 8 P.M. Bring any Mac related items you wish to donate for the auction. (See below for more information.)Pot-Luck Dinner Please e-mail Terry with all dinner related questions. Raffle Donations If you are donating an old system we will be sure to destroy your old data on the computer before the auction. November 9, 2004, Digital Photography with Leigh PhotographyThe November 9th PMUG meeting will feature Miles W. Truesdell III, General Manager of Leigh Photo & Imaging of Princeton New Jersey. Miles will introduce the features and benefits of digital cameras including resolution and price point comparison. He will also touch on topics like file handling, retouching, output and recommend the most efficient software for working with your digital files.Miles was born and raised locally in Lawrenceville. He graduated from Adelphi University in Garden City N.Y. with a BA in Art History and has worked as an assistant for various photographers in NYC, Associate Photographer for Richards and Speedy in Princeton Junction, and Studio Manager for Gabriells Imperatori-Penn in NYC. Mr. Truesdell is currently General Manager and Photographer at Leigh Photo & Imaging and also Adjunct Instructor in the Photography Department of Mercer County Community College teaching courses in traditional film photography and digital photography. He lives in Hamilton Township New Jersey with his wife Linda and 6 month old daughter Ashley. October 12, 2004, New Apple Products with Dave MarraJoin Dave Marra, Apple Senior Systems Engineer, for an exciting evening exploring the amazing new hardware and software products recently released from Apple. We will take an in-depth look at the cool new iMac G5, Power Mac G5, eMac, iBook and PowerBook systems--all running on an AirPort Extreme wireless network--in addition to the new and extremely popular iPod and iPod mini.For the latest in exciting Apple software, we'll hear more about Mac OS X v.10.4 "Tiger" and have fun with iLife '04--featuring iTunes 4, iPhoto 4, iMovie 4, iDVD 4 and the brand new and simply amazing GarageBand! Finally, we will finish up with Final Cut Express 2.0 and Motion, for professional-quality digital video editing at a very affordable price. Be prepared for an exciting show! As a Senior Systems Engineer for Apple Computer, Dave Marra has conducted over 500 technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for user groups, schools, businesses and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. His specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies and cross-platform integration. For more information about Dave, please visit his web site. September 14, 2004, Mac OS X Maintenance with Rob GoldingMac OS X is a frisky kitty that on occasion needs some tender loving care. What types of maintenance is needed and when? What utilities can help you deliver the care OS X wants? The program will focus on using file utilities that help maintain on the OS X file system, rid pesky problems from users lives and rescue damaged files. Many freeware and shareware utilities will be demonstrated along with commercial products such as Disk Warrior and Tech Tool Deluxe.Rob has been a lifelong resident of the Trenton and Princeton areas. Attending Rider University longer then he intended, he completed his B.S. in Chemistry in May of 2004. It was at Rider in 1989 he found his computer platform of choice in the form of a Mac Plus running MacWrite and ChemDraw. Since joining PMUG in 2002 he has held several positions including leading the Intermediate SIG, and more recently editor of The Dialog PMUG's monthly newsletter.
August 10, 2004, Networking A to ZJeff Gorman of Creative Computing (Princeton N.J.) will take us through networking A to Z. Jeff will build a full network for internet sharing, file sharing and printer sharing using Airport, ethernet hubs, USB printer sharing and ethernet network printers. We will see all of this through Mac OSX, Mac OS 9 and Windows with each added to the network. We will even have the new Airport Express to showoff the new wireless audio streaming from iTunes to your home stereo system! If you have or have wanted to learn about networks this is a program not to be missed.Jeff Gorman is the owner of Creative Computing on Witherspoon Street in Princeton NJ. In his spare time he serves as PMUG's How and Why Intermediate Special Interest Group Leader and also helps members get question answered on the HELPList. July 13, 2004, ColorSync/color spaces and color profilingOur July program will be focusing on color management and how to get the absolute best color on screen and out of your digital work flow. This session will be an overview of the challenges confronting photographers, graphic designers, and other digital content creators; and will describe the use of color management tools to regain control of your digital color. Areas covered will include ColorSync, color profiles, how to use color management in various applications such as Photoshop and the best ways to to ensure what you see on your screen is what you deliver to your printer.Door prizes will include a complete ColorVision color solution package worth over $200. C. David Tobie has long worked in the color management industry as a Color Geek, Color Editor, Color Speaker, and Color Developer. His commitment to affordable color management solutions has led editing numerous books and magazines in the photo and color imaging areas, and to his current position as Product Technology Manager at ColorVision, where he oversees the development of the ColorVision line of monitor calibration and printer profiling products. June 8, 2004, Targeted Web ResearchFor most people, finding that one piece of pertinent information on the Web requires sifting through dozens of worthless sites -- a drain on their time, especially when on deadline. This session will improve your Web research techniques and introduce several specialized data sites to increase productivity on the Web. Sandeep Junnarkar, Louis B. Weil Visiting Professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism, will show tactics to gauge the credibility of information found on the Internet and expose common techniques in circulation to dupe Internet users.Sandeep Junnarkar currently teaches online journalism, reporting and writing, and business journalism. From March 2000 to August 2003, he was the New York bureau chief at CNET News.com, writing special reports on the strengths and weakness of various industry technologies. In April 2003, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers selected his three-day report titled "Cracking the nest egg" as Best in Business Projects Among Real-Time Publications. The series was also a finalist in the Investigative Reporters and Editors contest in June 2003. His special reports have won multiple South Asian Journalism Association Journalism Awards and an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association and Columbia University. In 1994 Junnarkar was part of a team gathered to present The New York Times on America Online, a service called @times. He later became a breaking news editor, writer and Web producer for the The New York Times on the Web. May 11, 2004, Bob LeVitus and GarageBandWriter of more then 45 books, technology columnist for the Houston Chronicle, raconteur, and Macintosh consultant, Bob "Dr. Mac" Bob LeVitus will discuss GarageBand, Apple's revolutionary new music program.With GarageBand you don't have to play the piano. You don't have to read music. You don't even have to have rhythm. If you know what you like when you hear it, you can make your own kind of music. It's the easiest way for anyone - pro or novice alike - to perform, record and create music. In a special extended meeting, Bob LeVitus will demonstrate how GarageBand turns your Mac into a digital recording studio - complete with instruments, pre-recorded loops, amps, effects and editing tools. April 13, 2004, QuickTime BootcampNick Floro will give a comprehensive introduction to QuickTime technology and compression technologies. Learn which codec to pick for your projects for web, CD and DVD delivery of content.We'll walk thru QuickTime Pro and learn how to use the built in authoring features, how to access advanced QuickTime features such as effects and interactivity and how QuickTime is being used on CDs, digital applications and the Internet to deliver the best content. We'll also demonstrate how you can take advantage of the latest interactive technologies to build the best tools for training, presentations, marketing, product tours, and providing information to clients. Nick Floro is President of Sealworks, Inc., an interactive developer of digital solutions for delivery on the web, cd and digital devices. He has over 11 years of experience integrating multimedia, digital video and Internet applications and teaches classes on multimedia production around the US. March 16, 2004, Bring on the Questions!The meeting will be entirely devoted to answering your questions. We have lined up a dynamic group for our panel of experts. They are: Bill Achuff, Terry Wilson, Sheldon Presser, David Verdini and Jeff Gorman. This is your opportunity to get a lot and I mean a lot of your questions answered or problems resolved.Normally we have our SIGs serve the function of Q&A regarding your favorite computing platform. Think of this month as a triple serving. Our normal SIGs will meet at the normal times but once the main meeting comes to order we will open the floor up for any issues you may be having. Nothing is off limits (Mac related that is), hardware, software, operating system, upgrades, and third party solutions for your needs are all fair-game. Get your questions ready early. The most effective way to make use of this it to have as much information as possible. Valuable info to provide the panel with would be: computer model, OS version, amount of RAM/hard disk space and if the problem is related to something like a specific application you should know the version of the application. If it concerns peripheral hardware such as a printer or scanner it would be helpful to specify the exact manufacturer/model and driver versions. During the meeting we request that you ask only one question at a time to ensure everyone gets a chance. Time will allow for many questions and answers so the panel should have the time to return to you if you have another question. With so many people asking you may learn a lot by just sitting back and listening to others problems and the solutions offered up by the panel. February 17, 2004, Digital Photography A to Z: Shooting, Editing, PrintingThree PMUG members will be enlightening us with many aspects of digital photography, and some not so digital. Joseph Beim will take us through the pre-digital age of taking and enhancing photography in and out of the darkroom. Doug Dixon will demonstrate how to organize and enhance your photos on the Mac starting with Apple's newly released iPhoto 4.Doug will also demonstrate aspects of using Adobe Photoshop Elements to fix and enhance photos using wizards, filters, effects, layers, text and graphic shapes. David Verdini will discuss options for dealing with Raw file formats and white balance issues commonly found in photos. He will also present software options for cataloging and hardware for storing your digital photos. Color profiling and other issues that will enhance digital photo workflow will also be touched on. Joe Beim began photography with a tiny camera, shooting Black and White images of the Staten Island Rapid Transit when he was three years old... and he was hooked. Through his many years of shooting his view of the world at the 1964-5 Worlds Fair, capturing his view of life his regular subjects (the streets of Brooklyn and railroad photography), Joe has attuned his eye to the world around him. His photo sales, images published in magazines and calendars, led to his eventual presidency of the Brooklyn Camera Club (home since 1930 of such prominent photographers as Sid November, the infamous Photo League's Lou Bernstein and Irving Hertzberg's renowned photographic life of the Chasidim). Medal winner from the Photographic Federation of Long Island. Professional lightman to darkroom maven, in all aspects of black and white and color. Now using a Mac to keep his hands out of the developer and fixer, he extracts the image-making tools electronically. Douglas Dixon is a technologist and author specializing in digital media. His Manifest Technology website provides free articles and technical references to help make sense of multimedia technology. Doug has published over 100 feature articles, and is the author of three books, including "Desktop DVD Authoring" and "How to Use Adobe Premiere." He is currently editor-at-large for Mediaware magazine, contributing editor for Camcorder and Computer Video magazine, and a contributor to CNET Reviews and the U.S.1 Newspaper. Doug has presented over 35 seminars and talks in the past few years for professional groups and conferences including Sony Training, NAB, DVD Conference, NY DV Show, TECHXNY / PC Expo, and Government Video Expo. David Verdini got involved with photography in his 20's and started seriously working with digital in 1999. David is a member of the Princeton Photography Club where he occasionally gives speeches on digital photography and hosts the monthly digital Q&A session. A year ago he started his own photography company, Verdini Studios, which provides photographic services to a number of companies and organizations as well as special events and portraits. Some of his work has been published in the Mercer County Verizon SuperPages, various company catalogs and websites, plus musician and actors' publicity sheets. Some of his photographs for his clients' products were aired on the HSN last summer. Also, this year, a coffee table book about the Princeton area is being published entitled: Princeton, The Pride Of A Nation, which he has been a major contributor. David's recent trip to India has yielded him an abundance of pictures, which is being prepared this year for gallery exhibits and an e-book. January 13, 2004, Mac OSX 10.3 "Panther" presented by Rob GoldingThis month Robert Golding will present an overview of Mac OS X.3 "Panther" from Apple Computer. Starting with requirements, installation and then showing off the new capabilities of OS. See how the dramatically new Finder works, added built-in faxing, the Expose window management feature, tame System Preferences, upgrades to Mail, AddressBook, Preview, and other applications that come with the OS. Just how much faster is the new OS on machines? See the new networking enhancements, fully AppleScript aware Finder, iChat in action, enhanced Open & Save dialogs, Fast User Switching, and security additions like File Vault & Secure Delete.Robert Golding, is President of PMUG and a former employee of Apple in the retail sales division working from the CompUSA in Princeton N.J. He is a life long Trenton & Princeton area resident. Rob first fell in love with Macs in 1988 using a Mac Plus with MacWrite and ChemDraw at Rider University while studying for a B.S. in Chemistry. These days he spends his time installing every piece of OS X software known to man and editing PMUG's Dialog newsletter. | |||||||||||
