Next Meeting: April 12, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
MacPeople Meeting:
April 12, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, April 12, 2007 from 6:00-9:00 pm in the University of Florida Entomology-Nematology Bldg, room 1031 (building in the woods just east of the Performing Arts Center). Need Directions?
6:00 - 6:50 Questions and Answers
6:50 - 7:05 Announcements and Break
7:00 - 7:20 Cocktail- Katie
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily maintain your system.
http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html
7:15 - 7:35 Disco- Corey
Workflow based disc burning for real people, designed with the Mac user in mind. In addition to basic burning and copying, users can take advantage of disc spanning, indexing, full sessions support, and many other advanced features.
http://discoapp.com/
7:35- 7:50 WebNoteHappy - Corey
WebnoteHappy is a bookmark manager that helps you organize and remember the web pages that matter to you. Each web page can be personalized with notes and tags as you bookmark it, creating a "webnote". The fast integrated search makes it easy to find your webnotes again.
http://www.happyapps.com/webnotehappy/
7:50 - 8:20 Apple TV - Dan
Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Apple TV ($299 value)
- iListen ($149.95 value)
- Parallels Desktop ($79.99 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Cocktail (2-copies) ($14.95value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
8:30 - 9:00 iListen - Special Presentation from MacSpeech
Get text into your applications in the simplest and easiest way possible with iListen. Just dictate anywhere you would type. iListen's exclusive TalkAnywhere technology allows you to dictate and correct directly into almost any application on Mac OS X.
http://www.macspeech.com
Meeting Notes:
Instructions for turning Ripped CDs into Audiobooks in iTunes
Apple TV Hacks Links:
Note: we don't endorse these web sites, hacking your Apple TV will probably void your warranty. Some of the bookmarks may no longer be active (although they were as of our meeting).
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Article/appleTV-2007-03-22-21-30
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/03/24/macrumors-review-apple-tv/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/23/how-to-upgrade-the-drive-in-your-apple-tv/
http://forums.macnn.com/103/ipod-iphone-and-apple-tv/331167/i-took-apart-my-appletv/#post3335889
http://manplusmachine.com/2007/03/hacking-appletv/
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/23/apple-tv-harddrive-upgrade-process/
http://osx.tribe.net/thread/2c9e899e-82ea-4e4c-b6e3-b1d39d48eef9#04acb106-06f0-4eb6-9c38-4510aaf45e2f
http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/archive/002450.html
http://jeffkoo.com/index.php?p=23
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/diy-apple-tv-hard-drive-upgraded-to-120gb-246567.php
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/03/24/apple_tv_hacks_reviews_and_trivia_roundup.html
http://www.powerpage.org/2007/03/apple_tv_xvid_crack_appears_on_forums.html
http://digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2391956&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
http://www.isquint.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=2648
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-03-27/#6576
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/03/27/apple.tv/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17844706/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewsletter
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/04/01/mac-os-x-running-on-apple-tv/
http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/04/08/news/illiana/docb375266cd9324510862572b7000633de.txt
April 12, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, April 12, 2007 from 6:00-9:00 pm in the University of Florida Entomology-Nematology Bldg, room 1031 (building in the woods just east of the Performing Arts Center). Need Directions?
6:00 - 6:50 Questions and Answers
6:50 - 7:05 Announcements and Break
7:00 - 7:20 Cocktail- Katie
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily maintain your system.
http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html
7:15 - 7:35 Disco- Corey
Workflow based disc burning for real people, designed with the Mac user in mind. In addition to basic burning and copying, users can take advantage of disc spanning, indexing, full sessions support, and many other advanced features.
http://discoapp.com/
7:35- 7:50 WebNoteHappy - Corey
WebnoteHappy is a bookmark manager that helps you organize and remember the web pages that matter to you. Each web page can be personalized with notes and tags as you bookmark it, creating a "webnote". The fast integrated search makes it easy to find your webnotes again.
http://www.happyapps.com/webnotehappy/
7:50 - 8:20 Apple TV - Dan
Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Apple TV ($299 value)
- iListen ($149.95 value)
- Parallels Desktop ($79.99 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Cocktail (2-copies) ($14.95value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
8:30 - 9:00 iListen - Special Presentation from MacSpeech
Get text into your applications in the simplest and easiest way possible with iListen. Just dictate anywhere you would type. iListen's exclusive TalkAnywhere technology allows you to dictate and correct directly into almost any application on Mac OS X.
http://www.macspeech.com
Meeting Notes:
Instructions for turning Ripped CDs into Audiobooks in iTunes
Apple TV Hacks Links:
Note: we don't endorse these web sites, hacking your Apple TV will probably void your warranty. Some of the bookmarks may no longer be active (although they were as of our meeting).
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Article/appleTV-2007-03-22-21-30
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/03/24/macrumors-review-apple-tv/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/23/how-to-upgrade-the-drive-in-your-apple-tv/
http://forums.macnn.com/103/ipod-iphone-and-apple-tv/331167/i-took-apart-my-appletv/#post3335889
http://manplusmachine.com/2007/03/hacking-appletv/
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/23/apple-tv-harddrive-upgrade-process/
http://osx.tribe.net/thread/2c9e899e-82ea-4e4c-b6e3-b1d39d48eef9#04acb106-06f0-4eb6-9c38-4510aaf45e2f
http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/archive/002450.html
http://jeffkoo.com/index.php?p=23
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/diy-apple-tv-hard-drive-upgraded-to-120gb-246567.php
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/03/24/apple_tv_hacks_reviews_and_trivia_roundup.html
http://www.powerpage.org/2007/03/apple_tv_xvid_crack_appears_on_forums.html
http://digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2391956&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
http://www.isquint.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=2648
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-03-27/#6576
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/03/27/apple.tv/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17844706/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewsletter
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/04/01/mac-os-x-running-on-apple-tv/
http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/04/08/news/illiana/docb375266cd9324510862572b7000633de.txt