December 19, 2006 - Annual Holiday Party and Silent Raffle The annual Holiday Party and Silent Raffle will be held on the third Tuesday of the month. Two silent raffle items are the new 30GB iPod Video and 2GB iPod nano! (These particular items are for current members only, and membership will be open before the meeting.) The holiday party is the yearly fundraiser event with food and merriment, a chance to help PMUG and possibly win Apple related products. Everyone at the meeting can donate any Apple Computer related product and buy raffle tickets. Donations are asked to be in working condition and if not won at the raffle, donors are required to bring the items home with them. The Silent Raffle is similar to a swap meet, but more organized and much fairer. Important information: November 14, 2006 - iWeb presented by Steve Resnick
All it takes is iWeb, .Mac, an internet connection, and you can make your own family photo page, blog or other webpage—quickly and easlily! Steve Resnick took his first Computer course using a keypunch in 1972, and bought his first Mac in 1986. He has been a member of PMUG for over 10 years. In addition to using Macs for more traditional uses, such as email, word processing, and personal accounting, he has enjoyed using it as a creative tool, making videos, organizing photos, making personal newsletters, and now Blogs. "The 'Apple' doesn't fall far from the tree", and both of his daughters (as well as his wife) are dedicated Mac users. New features in iTunes 7 include the downloading of movies and games from the iTunes store, a revised source list / playlist, automatic album art import, gapless playback, and more. Dave Brody of Imaginova will demonstrate its features which include examining and learning about the planets in our solar system, identifying the constellations, building star maps, adjusting time to witness past and future astronomical events, and much more. Features of the newly released Starry Night version 6 include: new chart printing formats, hear astronomical object pronunciations, follow space probe missions in 3D, track satellites in orbit, new object descriptions, and much more. Once your photos look great, you'll want to share them with people who want to see them or just for yourself. You can integrate your photos into screen savers, desktop backgrounds, Internet photo cast, Web pages, Kodak prints, self-playing DVD slideshows with music, gift books, calendars, cards, and postcards. Maria O. Arguello is president and vendor liaison of the Main Line Macintosh Users Group (MLMUG) and a PMUG member. She is the Apple User Group Regional Liaison for the Northeast United States, as well as the Liaison for Online Groups. Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, LeVitus has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: "GarageBand For Dummies" and "Mac OS X Panther For Dummies." He also pens columns for the Houston Chronicle newspaper, MacDesign magazine, and Mac Observer Web site. In 2004, LeVitus started Doctor Mac Direct LLC, a company that provides expert technical help and training to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can also visit Bob's own website. On July 10, Dr. Mac will be the guest of honor at Charlie Brown's restaurant on Route 1 South in West Windsor, New Jersey. All those attending will be entered to win some great door prizes: 1GB iPod nano, 512MB iPod Shuffle or a $25 iTunes Gift Card. A Thank You to Regional MUGs! For the latest in exciting Apple software, we'll have fun making podcasts with iLife '06--featuring significantly updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand, along with the brand new iWeb! Finally, we will finish up with iWork '06, Apple's updated productivity suite featuring Pages and Keynote, for creating professional-looking documents and simply stunning presentations. Be prepared for an exciting show! Excel is much more than rows and columns, formulas and lookups. It is capable of many tricks that most of us don't use and are even unaware of. In this presentation, Joel May will explore with us some of these underused features such as advanced charting, date arithmetic, filtering, pivot tables, scenarios and functions. Joel has spent most of his adult life teaching, first at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago and, subsequently, at the School of Public Health of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with a stint in between as President of the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey, a subsidiary of the New Jersey Hospital Association. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Albright College and an MBA and PhD in Economics and Statistics from the University of Chicago. He's been using computers since 1961, the Internet since 1974, PCs since 1979, and the World Wide Web since 1994. Since his retirement in 1995, he has volunteered his time teaching computer skills to senior citizens at the Ewing SeniorNet Computer Literacy Center, reading for the blind at the NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped and singing in Princeton Pro Musica and the Hopewell Valley Community Chorus. Doug Dixon provides an introduction to Podcasting (radio shows on your media player or computer), Blogs (online journals), Vlogs (Video Blogs), and RSS (Web subscription services). He will discuss how these new services are used, how you can tap in to these growing conversations, and how you to get started communicating too. Sol Libes also will demonstrate using iTunes for Podcasting and Videocasting, showing examples of how to search, and subscribe to syndicated content. Douglas Dixon is an independent technology consultant, author, and speaker specializing in digital media. Previously a product developer at Intel Corp. and Sarnoff Corp., he is the author of four books and has published over 200 feature articles. Doug is currently editor-in-chief of IRMA's Mediaware magazine and East Coast technical editor for Camcorder & Computer Video magazine, and also contributes to the U.S.1 Newspaper in Princeton. Doug has organized and presented over eighty seminars and talks on digital media topics over the past six years, for professional groups and at conferences including CES, NAB, Government Video Expo, and DV Expo. He makes his articles and technical references freely available on his Manifest Technology website. Personal Mass Media - Blogging, Syndication, Podcasting, and Vidcasting (Introductory) This presentation will focus on the tools you need to import analog audio (cassette, records and other sources) and video (VHS, analog video cameras) into your Macintosh computer. Discussed will be the devices allowing you to make the connection, the cables needed, software to capture and edit along with output. Quick examples will also be demonstrated live. The members' raffle will feature ADS's Instant Music USB audio input devices (2 valued at $60 each), Roxio's Toast Titanium version 7 ($99 value) and more! 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, President and is now the editor of The Dialog, PMUG's monthly newsletter. Bill Achuff will lead a panel discussion and demonstration of the new Apple & Macintosh electronic equipment featured at this year's January MacWorld Expo. Bill will be joined by Maria O. Arguello & Sharon Fordham, both of whom will have just returned from Apple's biggest exposition ever! Hear all about the new MacBook Pro and iMac, the first Macs which run (much faster) on an advanced Intel processor chip. Learn what is the newest and greatest, what it looks like up close, and have the opportunity to ask questions of those who saw the show in person. Lights! Camera! Hunh!? It all seems so easy when you watch the Apple commercials, but how do you actually make a movie on your Mac? What are the different hardware, software and workflow choices you would have to make to be able to easily create your best results? Come learn about the different options for digital video cameras and software for capture, edit and post production. Come learn about the steps to put together your very own movies! You will hear about equipment, software and process and you will see a detailed demonstration of video capture, clip assembly and final movie production using Apple's iMovie and iDVD software. Daniel Flax has been working with Macintosh and Apple products since 1984. He has many years of experience with a multitude of electronic media, including web, ecommerce, and digital video. He is presently Managing Director of Trading Technology for the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to his current position, Daniel was responsible for development and operations of all Web Systems for the NYSE. While his vocational activities require a variety of systems, at home and in heart, Daniel exclusively uses Apple gear! | |||||||||||||||
iWeb is a simple but powerfull new entry into the iLife package of user friendly apps. Steve Resnick will demonstrate the speed and simplicity of this application by taking Mac related media, including jokes, photos, and other items, to make a sample website during the presentation.
Dave Ciotti of Mercer County Community College will discuss iTunes, Apple's program for playing and organizing digital media.
Starry Night is desktop planetarium software which presents a realistic 3D display of the night sky and beyond.
Join Maria Arguello as she demonstrates Apple's iPhoto 6, one of the most enhanced applications in the iLife '06 suite. New to iPhoto 6 is its full-screen editing mode. Even the greatest photos need a little touching up. You'll learn many additional tips and tricks to help you edit photos like a pro.
Bob LeVitus will headline our general meeting with "cool hardware and software."
Join 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 brand new iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, all running with Intel Core Duo processors.
New Internet technologies are changing how people communicate. Mainstream mass media is challenged by personal media, as the old model of one-way broadcasting has been usurped by distributed conversations.