appleJAC Macintosh Users

June 2008 Meeting Agenda

  

January Meeting Agenda

Curtis VanWye presenting iLife 08 at this months Meeting

Since Apple has released iLife 08, we are scheduling the September appleJAC meeting to  cover this great update to Apples software package.

appleJAC Board member, Curtis VanWye will be making  the presentation.  Curtis has been famous in the past for his presentations on iMovie and I know I for one am interested to his thoughts on the completely new iMovie 08.   

Join us for the first meeting of the fall.  Time and date for the meeting is covered in the meeting notice on the left.

February Digest is Ready!

The February issue of the appleJAC Digest is ready for you to download.

Click in the link to the left side of this page under appleJAC Links titled This Month's aJ Digest (Members Only).  The password is still set to what it has been for the last few months.

Also, don't forget to check out the list of vendor offers from the month located in the same place.

The next meeting is scheduled for February 6th at 7pm and will be held at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City.

The focus of this meeting will be Stories from your  MacWorld Travelers in San Francisco.

January appleJAC Digest is Ready!

The January issue of the appleJAC Digest is ready for you to download.

Click in the link to the left side of this page under appleJAC Links titled This Month's aJ Digest (Members Only).  The password is still set to what it has been for the last few months.

Also, don't forget to check out the list of vendor offers from the month located in the same place.

The next meeting is scheduled for January 9th at 7pm and will be held at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City.
The focus of this meeting will be a Questions and Answers and with a live call from our MacWorld Travelers in San Francisco

December Issue of the appleJAC Digest is Ready!

The December issue of the appleJAC Digest is ready for you to download.

This month you can find the digest on the new appleJAC Web site at www.applejac.org

Click in the link to the left side of this page under appleJAC Links titled This Month's aJ Digest (Members Only).  The password is still set to gomac

Also, don't forget to check out the list of vendor offers from the month located in the same place.

The next meeting is scheduled for December 5th at 7pm and will be held at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City.

The focus of this meeting will be a vendor demo of the scrapbooking software iRemember.

December Meeting Agenda Posted

Great Prizes at this months Meeting

The next appleJAC meeting is scheduled for December 5th at 7pm and will be held at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City. Directions to the meeting are listed in the appleJAC links below. The focus of this meeting will be A vendor presentation on iRemember Scrapbooking Software.

iRemember is a page layout application designed specifically for scrapbooking. It includes tools to compose a page consisting of basic shapes and text. Each of the thirteen basic shapes can act as a container to hold photos, clip art, embellishments, solid colors or patterns. Shapes and text are layered to achieve complex page designs.

Plus is celebration of the holiday season, there will be two special prizes. 

The world’s smallest digital music player, the 1GB iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt. Clip on iPod shuffle and wear it as a badge of musical devotion.

How do you improve on the mouse that has everything? Remove its tail. Mighty Mouse — the mouse that changed the way you scroll — has gone wireless. Now you can take that seamless, touch-sensitive, 360-degree scrolling design with you wherever you go.

Must be present and be a paid member to win.

November Meeting Agenda Posted

October appleJAC Meeting on iDVD

So what is iDVD? ... from Wikipedia.

iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Computer for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It is often considered the last step of Apple's iLife suite, bringing together all the other iLife applications results onto a removable media.

While originally only available for Macs with a SuperDrive, it is now included at no additional charge with all new Macs -- as of iDVD 6, Apple has finally opened the door to burning projects with third-party optical drives.

The program uses the concept of themes to allow the easy creation of DVD menu systems. The themes have 'drop zones', onto which movies or photographs can be dropped. The theme automatically animates the drop zones if necessary.

The program integrates with the rest of the iLife suite. iMovie projects and iPhoto slideshows can be exported directly to iDVD. In the case of iMovie projects, scene selection menus are automatically created in accordance with chapter markers that are set within iMovie. The application also has a 'Media' area that provides access to the user's iTunes library, iPhoto library and Movies folder at any time, and there is a map view, which shows the current project's menu system in a graphical form. Another feature is the ability to hide or show an approximation of the 'TV safe area' (because old televisions often cut off some of a video's outer areas).

Where can I get more information on using iDVD?  Use the links below.

Apple's iDVD Getting Started Manual

Apple iDVD Support Site

Apple iDVD Discussion Community

Jim Heid's The Macintosh iLife 06

Agenda Set for October Meeting

September issue of the appleJAC DIgest is ready!

Attention appleJAC members:

The September issue of the appleJAC Digest is ready for you to download. 

Click in the link to the left side of this page under appleJAC Links titled This Month's aJ Digest (Members Only)

Also, don't forget to check out the list of vendor offers from the month located in the same place.

The next meeting is scheduled for September 5th at 7pm and will be held at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Jefferson City.  The focus of this meeting will be Audio. Attend the meeting to learn about creating audio projects and see how Apple's Garageband makes this world much easier.

Learn More about Airport Networks...

One of the presentations at the July appleJAC meeting was about setting up Airport networks.  In the presentation, setting up a single basestation and multiple base stations was discussed.  In addition, Extending your network with an Airport Express was discussed.

Apple's AirPort uses the 802.11g wireless standard to deliver data rates — up to 54 Mbps. It supports both Macs equipped with an AirPort Extreme Card and Wi-Fi-compliant 802.11g Windows PCs, as well as Macs with the older AirPort Card and 802.11b Windows PCs. Using Airport, everyone in your family can surf the web wire-free because AirPort provides simultaneous wireless Internet access via your DSL or cable modem for between to 10 and 50 computers depending on the Airport you select.

As promiced, the slides from the presentation have been made available on the appleJAC website.  Near the end of the presentation, one of the slides includes links to more information about setting up airport networks.

These included:

Apple's publication Designing Airport Networks

Apples Airport Support Page

If you have further Questions on Airport Networking, be sure to add them into a comment to this post.

MacFixIt and Airport Networking is July's topic

Mark your calendar for July 11th for the July appleJAC Meeting. This month’s topic is “MacFixIt and Airport Networking". This month, we provide our annual opportunity to increase memory, upgrade systems, diagnose (and hopefully fix) computer problems, and learn about airport networking. This month, our meeting is being held at Trinity Lutheran School in Jefferson City.