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WEDNESDAY
September 24th, 2008
Q&A
6:00-6:30 PM
Beginner's SIG
Apple Mail and Address Book
6:30-7:00 PM
Main Program begins 7:00 PM
AGENDA:
Aperture 2
with Orlando Luna
iTunes 8
Using Blogger to create
a free Blog
and more...
We look forward to seeing you there.
Bring a friend!
Miami Museum
of Science
3280 South Miami Ave.
Miami FL
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GCMac Board Meeting
Wednesday October15th 23rd 2008
7:30 PM
Location TBA
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If you've been longing to get into a discussion with your fellow Mac enthusiasts, we've got the place: the new Gold Coast Mac listserver.
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Edited by Doug Noble
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Do you find Gold Coast Mac Useful? Can you help?Make a donation via Paypal, help us defer our expenses and provide better programs. Consider joining as a family member instead of an individual. Or, if you are NOT a member, maybe you can't attend meetings? Perhaps you simply enjoy the free use of our ListServ for questions and answers? We especially encourage you to donate!
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 Contrary to what some members might think, GCMAC's exciting monthly programs don't just "happen". Each presentation takes careful pre-planning, research and equipment setup. The video and sound system has to be connected each month. Our newsletter does not write, layout and print itself. The website has to be updated. Contracts with the museum are negotiated. Food is purchased and brought to meetings. SIG venues are sought out, and SIG presentations planned and presented. Vendors are solicited for giveaways. Items are purchased for drawings. The listserv is hosted and managed. The list goes on ....
All these things and more are virtually all accomplished by board members. Unpaid volunteers with busy lives and work schedules. Some members, like Marian Wertalka, a previous Volunteer of the Month, take it upon themselves to create programs like her fabulous Recycling program. Rose Lynn, though now living in South Carolina, remains our Ambassador. YOU TOO can be a volunteer. Come along to one of our board meetings, enjoy food and banter, get some tech questions answered by our self-proclaimed "experts", offer your ideas, and learn how you can contribute. Tell us what we could do better (and help us do it!). Write articles for the newsletter. Review a book. Help setup and teardown. Offer ways to spread the word to grow our membership.
Nominate someone you feel has been especially helpful to Gold Coast Mac! Contact any board member.
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Have Mac Questions? We've Got The Answers!
Welcome to Gold Coast Mac, South Florida's oldest and most active Macintosh User Group. Whether you are a new Mac user or a veteran, we're sure to be of use to you.
We invite you to our monthly meetings (no charge for entry), where we share tips on being more productive, teach beginners and switchers the Mac basics, demonstrate cool new products, get our problems solved, ask for advice and network with other Mac users.
No question is too basic! Our Special Interest Groups, (SIGs) deal with specific products and subjects. Our active Listserv means instant access to experts when you need help is just an email away. And GCMAC membership is just $40 a year. Where else can you find all this - at any price?
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Book of the Month
Now in its third edition, co-written by our very own Orlando Luna and available through Amazon.com
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September 2008" We are pleased to welcome members of the Kendall Camera Club to this meeting. A few months ago they were kind enough to invite GCM members to their meeting, which offered an informative introduction to photography basics. This month's featured program, Aperture, is sure to be of mutual interest to KCC and GCM members. And of course just about any self respecting photography enthusiast will own, or want to own, a Macintosh :-) All visitors will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of Photoshop Lightroom 2 For Dummies.
Our main program is headlined by Orlando Luna, who will present Aperture 2 Apple's high end solution for image management. Orlando is a excellent presenter, long time GCM member, videographer and author of Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2. We are lucky to finally catch Orlando in Miami on a meeting night, as he travels extensively for Apple these days.
Esver Camacho will demo the latest version of iTunes, iTunes 8, with Genius Playlists, Genius Sidebar, and lots more. In addition, for those of you who want to put up a simple blog/website, Doug Noble will present "Setting Up a Free Blog on Blogger". And show that you too can have your opinion out there on the Internet to be Googled just like the big guys!
Time permitting, André Perwin will offer an abbreviated version of a presentation made at our Advanced User SIG on File Sharing.
Can you help? Our website needs work. We have many ideas for ways to enhance it - useful links, links to products we feature, member profile pages, product reviews, helpful articles, and much more. BUT it's not a job for one person. One person can be the webmaster but CONTENT is what we need help with. In some cases just compiling information. So if you want to help - and this is an all volunteer group, we rely on participation - please contact Doug Noble, Esver Camacho, André Perwin or any board member to discuss how you can help. We are not asking for a major commitment of time, just a helping hand.
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August 2008: A packed program included Ron Bernstein who explained how to get "From Photoshop to iPhoto to iWeb". New board member Eddie "It will change your life" Torres presented "Digging Delicious bookmarks" and the "Call Wave Widget" (for sending text messages to
cell phones from your computer). And we were pleased to welcome back Anthony Marino after a long presenting absence. He showed "Creating Web Banners with Flash". One member was heard to remark on his way out, "With all this talent, you really should charge for admission, can't recall when I learned so much in such a short space of time!"
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July 2008 At 6:30 PM Esver Camacho will lead the Beginner's class. In this session we'll show how to use the new Spaces feature in Mac OS 10.5. With Spaces you can have many virtual desktops (fancy words for "make believe you have multiple monitors when all you can afford is one
measly screen"). If you're the kind of person who can handle more
than one thing at a time this just might make you more productive.
For our main program Charlie Carlon will be showing the new iPhone 3G, what it can do and what applications are available for both the older and newer iPhones. If you're still fighting the temptation to get one or are a happy go lucky owner of an iPhone don't miss his presentation.
We move on to a demo of Radioshift and RadioLover. These two programs
allow you to download and listen to radio programs being broadcast
over the Internet. One of them even allows you to time shift a radio
show by going so far as to turn on your computer and record the show
at the time you tell it to. You don't even have to be around your
computer for it to happen. It gets better, you can add Griffin's USB
radio, the RadioShark, and this lets you record any over-the-air
radio show at the time you tell it to. It's like a VCR for your radio.
Finally, a real life-changing way to get your news and information
from the Internet is using RSS feeds. It only sounds complicated but
in reality it's really easy. Instead of surfing the web for the news
you want, it all comes to you. You can even use it as your own
clipping service (filtering the news so you get only what you want to
see - a politician's dream come true). Eddie Torres will guide you on
how to set it up and use it.
We look forward to seeing you there, bring a friend! Stop by and say hi to our new President André Perwin, and enjoy complimentary coffee and snacks.
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June 2008 At our last meeting, results of our annual board elections were announced. Our new president is long serving board member and former Secretary André Perwin. We thank Dave Game for his leadership and contribution over the last year, he, once again, becomes Past President, a role he has served in before! We say thanks and goodbye to board members John Petkovitch and Dennis Daley, and welcome Eddie Torres to the board. Laura Coe will fill André's shoes as Secretary in the coming year.
Now, to our exciting program. Esver Camacho demonstrated some key features of iMovie '08 and illustrated differences between the way it works and the old, very different (and some say better) iMovie '06. He also showed YouSendIt.com, a website that makes it easy to send large files without chhoking email boxes. Doug Noble previewed Mobile Me, which is the renamed and upgraded replacement for Dot Mac. And Dave Game discussed the WWDC keynote speech and new iPhone which goes on sale July 11th. If you didn't go home having learned something useful, you must have been asleep! |
March 2008 - If you were one of the 8 people who attended the Advanced User SIG this month, you received a preview of André Perwin's presentation on Backing Up Your Mac. But if you missed it, never fear. Those who attended agreed, this is information YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS! So André kindly agreed to a repeat performance, and will be providing a modified version of his presentation to the general membership, with lots of valuable information on backup strategies. So if you want to know how to protect yourself from losing all your data in the crash that will inevitably happen some day... this is your opportunity. In addition, Esver will be showing PageSender from SmileOnMyMac, a valuable utility if you want to send faxes from your computer, it provides enhanced functionality over the built in fax capabilities. And wait, there's more! Andre will also show the latest Hot Disk, which will be on sale. Finally, Q&A starts at 6pm, and at the Beginners SIG at 6.30 pm, Esver will once more offer "must have" info for beginners and not-so beginners alike. So be there or you will miss out! And remember, we will have door prizes to be won - but you must be a member to enter the drawing. If you are a non-member, sign up at the front desk when you arrive to join and get your ticket and a fabulous GCMAC mug.
Also, be aware that the museum is hosting a fashion show on the same day. Our meeting is free but their show is not. So our members and guests will have to wear wrist bands so they can enter and leave
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February 2008 - Last month at our general meeting on Wednesday 27th February at the Museum of Science, we were pleased to host a well received presentation from Jean MacDonald of creative productivity software vendor SmileOnMyMac, she showed a number of their products including PDF Pen. And in addition, we demonstrated the long awaited updated to one of the mainstay products of your Mac life, Microsoft Office 2008. |
January Meeting Wrap-up Our January meeting kicked off with the MacWorld keynote speech, edited down to the highlights by Dave Game. Doug Noble gave a demo of Bento, the new personal database (for Leopard only) from Filemaker, and John Stephen stepped into fill Charlie's Carlon's traditional spot, offering us a great presentation of interesting things he found at MacWorld. And the meeting was accompanied by complimentary cofee and snacks. We had a good turnout, welcoming back old friends as well as making some new ones. |
GCMAC makes member
"114% more intelligent" !
From the GCMAC Listserv What a great meeting we had tonight. If you are a member and missed this
meeting you really need to make time in the months to come and get back to
the GCMac family. It always amazes me how much I learn at all the meetings,
not to mention that over the years I have made some great friends in GCMac.
The presentations tonight were exceptional. I can't wait to dig into iLife
'08 as well as iWork '08. I bought a copy prior to the meeting but someone
actually won a free copy of iLife tonight at the meeting. I came home and
immediately downloaded Paparazzi (a freeware screen capture program that lets you capture complete web page, no matter how long, to a JPG or PDF [Ed]) because of another great presentation.
Thanks to all of the presenters for making me '114%' more intelligent than I
was before the meeting. I look forward to seeing everyone next month... :)
Bob Lasky, GCM Member In addition to presentations of iMovie '08, iPhoto '08, Numbers and Paparazzi, we also gave away a new inkjet printer generously donated by Marian Wertalka, and a copy of iLife '08. Two winners went home happy! Free snacks and coffee provided by GCMAC were also served. Empty ink cartridges and cell phones were collected for recycling. And new and renewing members went home with the fabulous new green GCMAC mug!
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Get DSL Service On the Cheap!
AFor those of us still on dial-up, there was a recent news item that might be of interest: AT&T is offering a $10.00 per month DSL term plan to Bellsouth customers who have not previously subscribed to DSL.
The yearly term plan is the same as the basic plan with speeds up to 768 Kbps. This plan is the result of a concession AT&T made to the FTC, in order for AT&T to become the new owners of BellSouth, and Cingular.
The plan is obscured somewhat on the internet services page - you will have to scroll down towards the bottom of the page to see the link for "Term contract plans available."
http://www.bellsouth.com/consumer/inetsrvcs/index.html
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