GreenvilleMUG

GMUG Meeting: Monday, June 9
(Greenville Macintosh Users Group)

Time:
6:30 pm
Session 5: “Backup, Part 3″

7:00 pm:
Part 1: iMovie Basics
Part 2: Steve Jobs’ Keynote

Next Monday, June 9 (GMUG meeting day), Apple’s World Wide Developers
Conference (WWDC) starts with a keynote by Steve Jobs. Back in March
Jobs said that the focus at WWDC would be on the iPhone. Bobby
Morrison, Apple Solutions Consultant over the Apple Store at Best Buy
(which opened May 30), will be with us to elaborate on the good news
that the keynote will bring. Join us to learn more about iMovie and
the exiciting news from Apple.

Place:
Grace Baptist Church Choir Room
5020 Old Spartanburg Road
Taylors, SC 29687
(At the Intersection of Brushy Creek & Old Spartanburg Roads)

Wireless is available, so bring your laptops.

6:30 pm - Mac Basics
Session 4:”What’s New in Leopard”

7:00 pm: News About Apple Coming Back To The Upstate plus Back up: It’s Essential! Part 2

The Apple Store at Best Buy is coming to town the end of this month.

Plus learn more about back ups, moving
beyond Time Machine to other options.

Wireless is available, so bring your laptops.

MUG Meeting: Monday, April 14
(Greenville Macintosh Users Group)

Time:
6:30 pm -  Mac Basics
Session 3:”What’s New in Leopard”

7:00 pm: Back up: It’s Essential!

Ever had your computer crash and not have a back up?  The majority of
computer users do not back up their computer at all. If you are in
this boat, learn about the options for back ups that are now
available, starting with Time Machine, the built in back up system in
OS X Leopard.  Dave Kline will show us how to work with Time Machine
and how helpful it is – at times a real life saver.

Place:
Grace Baptist Church Choir Room
5020 Old Spartanburg Road
Taylors, SC 29687
(At the Intersection of Brushy Creek & Old Spartanburg Roads)

Wireless is available, so bring your laptops.

GMUG Meeting: Monday, March 10
(Greenville Macintosh Users Group)

Time:
6:30 pm - Mac Basics -  Session 2: “What’s New in Leopard”

7:00 pm: New Mac Users
The installed base of Mac users in the Upstate is growing! New users always have lots of questions.  Bobby Morrison will be focusing on new users in his presentation, answering some of their many questions.

And we’ll be hearing about the exciting new features that will be coming on the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) in June: features for business users, games and more!

Last night was started the meeting with our usual question and answer session.  Several items touched upon were backup procedures and remote networking.

During the main part of the program Patrick Greer gave a presentation on RSS: Blogging and Podcasting. As a surprise Patrick called into a Mac related podcast that was being recorded. The podcast is called, Help, iGot a Mac.  Patrick used the speaker feature on his iPhone to let the Greenville MUG group hear the hosts, Cliff Ravenscraft and Chris Biting.  As of the morning of Feb. 12th 2008 the podcast episode is available to listen to either on the Help iGot a Mac web site or a download via iTunes.

After the introduction and cross promotion of Greenville MUG on the Podcast and promoting the podcast during the early part of the presentation Patrick went on the explain what RSS, the advantages of RSS to the web experience and how it has made blogging and podcasting possible. Patrick showed how you could find out if a web site was RSS enabled by showing the icons and links on his own web site. and then shared several other Podcasts.

A couple of podcast links you might also want to check out are, Mac OSX Videos and  Quick Tip of the Week.