Past Meetings
See Home page for calendar of upcoming monthly meetings.
Highlights of our Monday night meetings over the past year:
October 2009 | September 2009 | August 2009 | July 2009 | June 2009 | May 2009 |
April 2009 | March 2009 | Feb 2009 | December 2008 | November 2008 |
Colin demonstrated Safari 4, and took us through the 'Reset Safari' menu options in detail. Main prize was a full retail Mac Box Set version of Snow Leopard, kindly donated by Colin Palmer.
September 7, 2009
Colin gave us a first look at the better, faster, easier Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
August 3, 2009
This was our 2009 Annual General Meeting. All members of the outgoing committee were re-elected unopposed (see Contact page), except for Ken Driver who resigned from the committee as vice president and editor after 10 years.
The two main prizewinners (pictured right) were Kath Harding (silver 8GB iPod nano) and Ron Lombardo (1TB USB2.0 hard drive). We enjoyed a scrumptious supper in the break, and demos by Colin included the Google Quick Search Box and Front Row with the Apple Remote.
July 6, 2009
Guest presenter Ron Lombardo – a former president of our user group in the 1980s and currently a commercial FileMaker Pro developer – demonstrated iMulch, his own Genealogy application built in FileMaker Pro.
Colin gave us a quick demo of the new iPhone 3G S.
The main prize was a Logitech X-530 70-watt, 5.1 Speaker System valued at $150.
June 1, 2009
Colin continued the Security theme with more in-depth tips on keeping your Mac and home wi-fi network safe.
The main prize was a 640GB USB2 External Hard Drive, valued at over $100.
May 4, 2009
Colin gave us the rundown on all levels of Security for your Mac as well as for your networking and Internet setup.
The main prize was an Apple Wireless Keyboard valued at $109.
Nicholas Pyers gave a keynote with Keynote! – how to use the new features in Keynote '09, part of Apple's iWork '09 suite, to deliver stunning presentations that leave PowerPoint cold. And the remote control device he used to change slides, while privately viewing speaker notes and a preview of the next slide, was his iPhone!
As well, Serge Tauber gave us a first-hand account of how easy and essential it was to take along his MacBook Pro
on a driving holiday through France, mostly tapping into free or low-cost wireless broadband as he moved from provence to provence. Apart from the convenience of email and local web browsing, he was able to 'phone home' free, courtesy of Skype!
Colin put the new Safari Beta through its paces. Then Ken Driver revisited the AMUG web site with an update on the meetings datepad and its link to our published iCal calendar, some additions to the Links page, member discounts after login and ordering Disc-of-the-Month online.
Colin gave us a demo of two new features in iPhoto '09 for tagging, organising and searching images by category – 'Places' and 'Faces'. We also looked at Google™ Maps Street View. Main raffle prize was a copy of Adobe's new 'Classroom in a Book: Illustrator CS4', courtesy of Peachpit Press.
We celebrated 30 years since the club's formation in 1978 (see Our History) with guest presenter Nicholas Pyers (nicholaspyers.com) delivering an excellent and thoroughly researched presentation covering "30 years of Apple and AUG Sydney". Some past committee members joined us and, being our 'Christmas' meeting, we enjoyed a sumptuous spread in the break. Main raffle prize was an 8GB iPod nano (RED)™ valued at $199, won by Roger Hardy.
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Luke McCormac from Epson talked about colour management for printing from Photoshop, the camera RAW image format, archival photo papers, and showed us one of the latest Epson inkjet printers from the new TX series.
