Next Meeting: June 14, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
MacPeople Meeting:
June 14, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, June 14, 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 - 7:00 Announcements
- Check out the new MacPeople CafePress store where you can order MacPeople themed apparel and other items. http://www.cafepress.com/macpeoplemug
- New Take Control eBook features "Troubleshooting your Mac"
7:00 - 7:10 Break
7:10 - 7:20 Visual Hub- Katie
Easily convert video files to play on your Apple TV, iPod, TiVo, DVD, and other popular formats.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
7:20 - 7:40 Airport Express and Airfoil -Katie/Corey
AirPort Express with AirTunes allows you to play iTunes music over your wireless network to your home stereo or powered speakers, share a broadband Internet connection, wirelessly print to a USB printer, and extend the range of your current wireless network easily and inexpensively. Add Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba Software and you can also send any audio source thought the AirPort express.
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
7:40- 7:50 MacLinkPlus - Katie
Gives Mac users with the ability to better communicate and exchange files with the Windows world by converting dozens of previously incompatible file types into something that can be opened on your Mac. Includes translators for the new .dox and .xlsx formats currently being used with Microsoft Office 2007.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html
7:50 - 8:10 NeoOffice- Corey
NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice incorporates dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
8:10 - 8:20 ScreenSteps- Corey
ScreenSteps is a program that allows you to create easy, visual, step-by-step tutorials to teach others how to use software programs. You can use the application to create screencasts, output to webpages, or create PDF instruction manuals.
http://www.screensteps.com/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Airport Express ($99.99 value)
- MacLinkPlus (2 copies) ($79.99 value each)
- ScreenSteps ($39.95 value)
- Air Foil ($25.00 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- Visual Hub (2 copies) ($23.32 value each)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Fremzic ($14.95 value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
- Apple Hat and Pens (Priceless!)
8:30 - 9:00 WWDC Wrap-up - Dan, Corey, and Katie
We'll cover all the announcements and new Apple products featured at the World Wide Developer Conference, which takes place June 11 - 15. Apple doesn't disclose what products we can expect to see at WWDC, but we do know that we'll finally get a peak at those "Top Secret" features of OS 10.5 Leopard and we'll possibly see new Apple Hardware and Software products announced, and as always, that special "one more thing..." announcement. We don't know what to expect, but we do know that it's going to be big!
Special offer for all members- Save 20% off the price of a ScreenSteps by typing in the code GAINESVILLEMUG at checkout.
June 14, 2007 6:00 - 9:00
The next meeting of the MacPeople Gainesville Area Macintosh Users Group will be on Thursday, June 14, 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 - 7:00 Announcements
- Check out the new MacPeople CafePress store where you can order MacPeople themed apparel and other items. http://www.cafepress.com/macpeoplemug
- New Take Control eBook features "Troubleshooting your Mac"
7:00 - 7:10 Break
7:10 - 7:20 Visual Hub- Katie
Easily convert video files to play on your Apple TV, iPod, TiVo, DVD, and other popular formats.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
7:20 - 7:40 Airport Express and Airfoil -Katie/Corey
AirPort Express with AirTunes allows you to play iTunes music over your wireless network to your home stereo or powered speakers, share a broadband Internet connection, wirelessly print to a USB printer, and extend the range of your current wireless network easily and inexpensively. Add Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba Software and you can also send any audio source thought the AirPort express.
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
7:40- 7:50 MacLinkPlus - Katie
Gives Mac users with the ability to better communicate and exchange files with the Windows world by converting dozens of previously incompatible file types into something that can be opened on your Mac. Includes translators for the new .dox and .xlsx formats currently being used with Microsoft Office 2007.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html
7:50 - 8:10 NeoOffice- Corey
NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice incorporates dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
8:10 - 8:20 ScreenSteps- Corey
ScreenSteps is a program that allows you to create easy, visual, step-by-step tutorials to teach others how to use software programs. You can use the application to create screencasts, output to webpages, or create PDF instruction manuals.
http://www.screensteps.com/
8:20-8:30 Prize Drawing
- Airport Express ($99.99 value)
- MacLinkPlus (2 copies) ($79.99 value each)
- ScreenSteps ($39.95 value)
- Air Foil ($25.00 value)
- Disco ($29.95 value)
- Visual Hub (2 copies) ($23.32 value each)
- WebNoteHappy ($24.95 value)
- Fremzic ($14.95 value)
- Take Control eBook (value varies)
- Apple Hat and Pens (Priceless!)
8:30 - 9:00 WWDC Wrap-up - Dan, Corey, and Katie
We'll cover all the announcements and new Apple products featured at the World Wide Developer Conference, which takes place June 11 - 15. Apple doesn't disclose what products we can expect to see at WWDC, but we do know that we'll finally get a peak at those "Top Secret" features of OS 10.5 Leopard and we'll possibly see new Apple Hardware and Software products announced, and as always, that special "one more thing..." announcement. We don't know what to expect, but we do know that it's going to be big!
Special offer for all members- Save 20% off the price of a ScreenSteps by typing in the code GAINESVILLEMUG at checkout.