Past Meeting Agendas

From 2005 to 2010

 
-2010- January 13 Marc Kerr and Bob DeVoe presented applications for safeguarding data on hard drives: Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, Retrospect, SMART Utility, and SoftRAID. February 17 Marc Kerr introduced a number of recent products that were unveiled at MacWorld 2010. March 10 The presentation was cancelled due to illness. April 14 The announced presenter, Jason Bruder, Apple Systems Engineer, was unable to come at the last minute, so Mark Kerr stepped in to present the iPad. May 11 Jim Knowlton and Marc Kerr illustrated Mac tools and techniques that apply the Getting Things Done philosophy to organize your life. June 8 Marc Kerr’s talk, Staying Safe on the Internet, presented tools and techniques to avoid trojans, spam, viruses, and other malicious intrusions that can disrupt your computer and damage your data (For notes of Marc's presentation, in pdf format, click here).  July 13 Our annual picnic took place, from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at the Sycamore Shelter in Lower Cascades Park. SMUG provided soft drinks, food to grill (hamburgers, veggieburgers, etc.), and all the fixings. Others brought appetizers, main course items and deserts to share. August 10 Marc Kerr continued his June presentation Staying Safe on the Internet, this time covering File Vault and other techniques for securing Macs and their data from theft or loss. -2009- December 9 As part of our annual Christmas party, Marc Kerr presented “The best Apple products to give and to wish for, especially Apple TV” November 11 “Developing a Family History with Photographs” - presented by James Marusek October 14 Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) - presented by Marc Kerr September 9 “Scanning documents into Macs” - presented by Bob DeVoe August 12 No meeting July 8 Annual picnic at Lower Cascades Park June 10 Live Highlights from the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco - reported on site by Marc Kerr May 13 “Combining Media using iMovie” - presented by Marc Kerr, based on his own race car movies April 8 “New Features of iPhoto ’09 and iWeb ’09” - presented by Bob DeVoe March 11 “B-TV Video Projects at Batchelor Middle School” - presented by Jeff Rudkin, B-TV director February 11 “Social Networking and Online Communities - presented by Marc Kerr January 14 “MacWorld 2009 in Review” - presented by Marc Kerr -2008- Dec 10 Open questions and answers; favorite web sites: moderated by Marc Kerr Nov 12 "Share photos with iWeb & MobileMe", presented by Bob DeVoe Oct 8 “Build Your Own web Site with iWeb”, presented by Marc Kerr Sep 10 “Which Macs’ for You?”, presented by Marc Kerr Aug 13 “Making the Most of the iPhone G3”, presented by Marc Kerr Jul 9 Annual picnic at Lower Cascades Park Jun 11 Open forum about everything Mac, including Tiger and Leopard issues - moderated by Bob DeVoe May 14 "The Face of Leopard" - presented by Bob DeVoe Apr 9 “Internet Security”, presented by Marc Kerr Mar 19 “Basic and Much Used Mac Software”, presented by Christopher Rollins and Bob DeVoe   Feb 13 "How to Create a Database in AppleWorks and Send it to the Web" - presented by Bob Devoe Jan 9 "Mac Leopard 10.5: "Time Machine and more Shortcuts" - presented by Christopher Rollins -2007-   Dec 5 "Mac Leopard 10.5: First Installment- Shortcuts and Features" - presented by Christopher Rollins Nov 14 "Protect against Mac Hard Drive Failures" - presented by Bob DeVoe Oct 10 "DVD Ripping and Digitizing - How to digitize DVD's into your Mac", presented by Christopher Rollins Sep 12 “Color Management in the Mac” - presented by Bob deVoe Aug 8 “Apple Computer Security: internet and more”, presented by Christopher Rollins and Marc Kerr Jul 11 Annual Picnic at Lower Cascades Park Jun 13 “Transferring large Files across the Internet”, presented by Bob DeVoe May 9 “Apple TV and Airport Extreme”, presented by Christopher Rollins Apr 11 "So Many Digital Photos", presented by Bob DeVoe     - 2006- Nov 8 Questions and answers about anything to do with Macintosh computers Oct 11 "How Fonts are Organized in OSX", presented by Bob DeVoe Apr 12 “A Taste of Apple's iPhoto 6 – Editing and Publishing Tools”, presented by Bob DeVoe   Mar 8 “A Taste of Apple’s iPhoto 6 - Optimize importing and organizing photos”, presented by Bob DeVoe Feb 8 Misc applications on OSX for fun and little profit Jan 11 The small but mighty iPods: Nano, iPod Touch, or do the Shuffle? Show and tell on Apple's smallest music players.   - 2005 - Dec 14 Apple Software: iWorks' Keynote - Create slideshows easily Nov 9 Apple Software: iWorks' Pages - Word processing, layout and publishing with style for letters, newsletters and things in between Oct 12 Software review: OmniGraffle - diagrams, charts and maps oh my! Diagramming has never been such fun Sept 14 Software Review: OmniOutliner - making lists and outlines, the way it should be. ... or as The Omni Group says: "... draft to-do lists, create agendas, manage tasks, track expenses, take notes, plan events, write screenplays...and just about anything else you can think of." Aug 10 SMUG picnic at Lower Cascades Park Jul 13 Backup Your Hard Drive - and How, presented by Bob DeVoe Jun 8 Hello Tiger: What makes the latest version of Mac OS X purrrrrrrr May 11 Web Publishing: Getting your stuff online for $30 or less Apr 13 Network Security on the Mac: John Johnson presents tips for protecting your home network Mar 9 How to use the Security Features in Mac OSX - Bob DeVoe tells how to secure your Mac with passwords, virus checkers, and other Applications Feb 9 AirPort Express: Lyle Turner presents big Wireless in a small package Jan 12 OSX Utilities - What's in the Utilities Folder, presented by Bob DeVoe http://www.smug.net/SMUG/stayingsafeontheinternet.pdfhttp://www.apple.com/ipodnano/http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/Past_Meetings_files/How%20to%20Create%20a%20Database%20in%20AppleWorks%20and%20Send%20it%20to%20the%20Web.pdfshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7