GreenvilleMUG

GMUG Meeting: Monday, November 9, 2009

Wireless is available, so bring your laptops.

6:30 pm: Mac Basics
7:00 pm: The Great New Apple Products and the “State of the Apple Union” in 2009

Fortune Magazine named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade this week. “Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression — and his own serious health problems.” “After creating more than $150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?” Apple is ending 2009 with a great line of products including new iMacs and a fun Magic Mouse. Join us as Bobby Morrison will be talking about the new Apple products including a demo of the new Magic Mouse. Looks like this holiday season will be another banner quarter for Apple!

Meeting Place: Grace Baptist Church Choir Room

5020 Old Spartanburg Road, Taylors, SC 29687

(At the Intersection of Brushy Creek & Old Spartanburg Roads)

Directions/Map: http://www.gbctaylors.org/AboutUs/LocationDirections/tabid/77/Default.aspx

After your Q&A Mac Basic portion of our Greenville Mac User’s Group meeting one of our members, Patrick Greer, will be speaking on how he uses his Mac in his business. Patrick is the owner of SpinningSilk Multimedia, a new media company specializing in educating clients and helping them produce compelling content for their web sites and other new media endeavors. Some of the applications Patrick will showcase are

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Bridge
• Sound Studio
• Ecto
• Textmate
• Newsfire
• Keynote
• Numbers
• File Juicer
• ScreenFlow
• iTunes
• iCal
• Mail
• 1Password

more importantly some of the features built into OSX Leopard including

• Quick Look
• Preview
• Spaces

Patrick will explain how these tools are are expecially useful and productive in the Mac environment and why he choses Apple computers with the OSX operating system as his main tool of choice in his business.

It’s that time of year again when the Mac faithful log in or head out to San Francisco, CA for the annual Macworld Trade Show. This years Macworld was no less exciting & the Greenville Mac Users Group would like to invite everyone to our annual Macworld Recap Meeting. This coming Monday night (Jan. 12) starting @ 7pm we will be going over all the Apple announcements from Macworld 2009 and watching excerpts of the keynote presentation. Bobby Morrison (Apple Solutions Consultant) from Apple will be presenting & demoing the new iLife ’09 & iWork ’09 Suite of applications that Apple announced. Plus; we will get to hear more about the new 17″ MacBook Pro portable – the thinnest, lightest 17″ portable computer ever offered. Bobby will also be taking questions from the attendees about product availability, announcements, the new DRM Free iTunes Store, iPhone & iPod and any other topic that you want to ask. Don’t miss this once a year exciting Macworld meeting!!! See you there!!!!

Bobby Morrison our local Apple rep will be setting up his “Cupertino Blog.”  he isgoing to attempt to do a daily blog (with pics & video) of his time out at Apple HQ coming up in about a week. He be adding pics throughout each day to his .Mac Web Gallery so that everyone  can see what’s going on at the meeting.  He will let me know when he gets the blog set up and I will post the link here.

His first posting will be on Sunday Sept. 30 (the day before he leaves) and then posts will be sporadic each day from breakfast to dinner and even beyond.

This is going to be a fun and exciting way to let everyone in the Greenville MUG be a part of the National Sales Meeting…. talk to you soon…