Apple User Group Bulletin - December 15, 2005
Apple User Group Bulletin - December 15, 2005
- Subject: Apple User Group Bulletin - December 15, 2005
- From: Apple User Group Relations <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:32:14 -0800
Apple User Group Bulletin - December 15, 2005
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Dear User Group Leader,
It's almost time to say goodbye to 2005 and to welcome 2006 with its
promise of great things to come. As we plan for the year ahead, we'd
love to hear from you. What brings your group joy? What issues do
you face in the year ahead? We know great things happen when user
groups get together and, as always, we remain dedicated to helping
user groups thrive.
Best wishes,
The Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB)
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CONTENTS
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Community News - Leaders
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1] - Apple Sales and Training: The End of the Year is Near
2] - Reminder: A New Way to Keep Track of Discount Offers
3] - Nicholas Pyers: Publishing iCal Calendars
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members
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Community News - Members
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1] - Expo News: Lots of Things to Do and See
2] - Expo News: Town Meeting for User Group Newsletter Editors
3] - User Group People in the News: David Feng and Nicholas Pyers
4] - Logo Design Contest: Students and Members Compete in New Jersey
5] - User Group Milestones: MacAttorney Passes 5,000 Members
6] - Photography Workshop: Allegheny Region Macintosh User Group
7] - Milestones
Special Offers
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1] - Pressure Drop: 10% off Monitor Stand/Combo Hub for Mac mini
2] - Intriguing Development: Holiday Discount on iRemember Scrapbooking
3] - Two-for-One: Best-Selling Roxio Products
4] - Quickertek: 20% Off
5] - Ending Soon: Learning Lab and Make Magazine from O'Reilly
6] - The MUG Store: Great Deals on Mac Refurbs and More
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COMMUNITY NEWS - LEADERS
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1] - Apple Sales and Training: The End of the Year is Near
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Here's a reminder to ambassadors that Apple Sales and Training
Online (ASTO) is closing for this program year on December 19. The
2006 ASTO membership will begin on Wednesday, January 4 at noon
Pacific time. Have you achieved Apple Product Professional (APP)
yet? There's still time.
Apple Sales Training
http://salestraining.apple.com/
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2] - Reminder: A New Way to Keep Track of Discount Offers
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Looking for an easy way to keep track of user group discount offers?
UGAB Vendor Coordinator Tom Piper has created a password-protected web
page of all current offers for user group members. Give the password
to your group's members in a non-public form (mailing list, print
newsletter, password-protected web page and/or members-only bulletin
board) and the codes will be ready when your members are.
Password
ugvendor
Vendor offers for user group members
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offers/vendorcodes.htm
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3] - Nicholas Pyers: Publishing iCal Calendars
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Nicholas Pyers is known for his clever puzzles, but did you know he's
an author too? His current article on publishing user group calendars
via iCal can help any group share news of their meetings and events
with a minimum of effort.
Check it out.
http://nicholaspyers.com/articles/20051023-publishingicals/index.html
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members, December 15, 2005
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COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS
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1] - Expo News: Lots of Things to Do and See
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One thing is for certain: attendees at Macworld San Francisco '06
won't be bored. Trish Huffman, AUG-D List Mom, Apple User Group
Advisory Board member and speakers coordinator presents an all-star
line up for User Group University and a wonderful variety of speakers
throughout the week in the User Group Lounge. Rick Ortiz, Apple User
Group Advisory Board member and booth coordinator has staffed the
booth with some great groups. Guides, parties and a week of fun: who
could ask for more?
User Group University
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/ugu06.html
User Group Lounge
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/mwsf06lounge.html
User Group Booth
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/mwsf06booth.html
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2] - Expo News: Town Meeting for User Group Newsletter Editors
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Are you the editor of your group's newsletter? Macworld presents an
excellent opportunity to network with other newsletter editors.
Looking for new ideas? Want to share some challenges? Let's get
together and talk on Wednesday, January 11, at 5 p.m. in the User
Group Lounge, room 250.
Share the news.
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/mwsf06lounge.html
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3] - User Group People in the News: David Feng and Nicholas Pyers
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This is an exciting time for a number of members of our community.
David Feng, president of Beijing International MUG and Apple User
Group Regional Liaison, was recently interviewed for television and
print media. Autoplus magazine and Beijing Today both wanted to know
what was on his mind.
http://www.beimac.com/modules/news/
Well known puzzlemaster and Apple Users' Group of Melbourne (AUSOM)
ambassador Nicholas Pyers will be writing a regular column for
Australian Macworld, starting with a February issue that includes
events in the user group community down under.
http://nicholaspyers.com/presentations/
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4] - Logo Design Contest: Students and Members Compete in New Jersey
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The Macs for Students group has been offering a logo design contest
for high school and college students in South Jersey as well as South
Jersey Apple Users Group (SJAUG) members. With a grand prize of a
silver iPod mini (4GB) and the honor of having their logo used and
published in print and on the web, the second prize winner will
receive a 1GB iPod Shuffle.
The Macs for Students group is a community service project which meets
monthly to refurbish donated Macs. These working systems are
distributed to students who apply and are accepted from Burlington
County, New Jersey and the surrounding area.
The winner will be announced at the December 16 Holiday Party
meeting of SJAUG.
http://www.sjaug.org
(Thanks to Main Line President and Apple User Group Regional Liaison
Maria O. Arguello for this tip.)
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5] - User Group Milestones: MacAttorney Passes 5,000 Members
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With two issues to go before they publish their fiftieth newsletter,
MacAttorney reports that they have already exceeded 5,400 members.
Formed as a place for attorneys, law students, legal professionals and
the IS staffs of legal firms, this group provides a much appreciated
service to the legal community. Congrats to attorney, author,
moderator and well known speaker Randy Singer and members of
MacAttorney.
http://www.macattorney.com
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6] - Photography Workshop: Allegheny Region Macintosh User Group
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The Allegheny Region Macintosh User Group (ARMUG) hosted a
demonstration of digital photography, computer processing of photos
and printing at the Chautauqua Arts Council in Jamestown, New York.
Participants included Photographers Bob Knobloch and Roger Roselli.
The venue
http://www.artscouncil.com/
The group
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ARMUG2000/
(Thanks to Ambassador Walter Atwood for this news.)
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7] - Milestones
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This month's column includes a group who first met in 1979. Happy
anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest groups. Want to
see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to
email@hidden.
1979 Apples BC Computer Society
http://www.applesbc.bc.ca
1980 Leisure World Macintosh Users Group (CA)
http://www.lwmug.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Louise Dawson.)
1980 Space Coast Mac Users Group
http://www.SCMUG.org
1981 Lynchburg Apple Core
http://www.lynchburgmug.org
(Warm wishes to retiring President Gordon Mattox.)
1985 Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, NY
http://www.mugone.com
(Congratulations to good friend, Apple User Group Advisory Board
Member and President Elsa Travisano and the members of MUG ONE.)
1987 Tucson Macintosh Users Group
http://tmug.com
1989 Christian Macintosh Users Group
http://www.cmug.org/index.html
1991 fiMUG - Finnish Macintosh User Group ry
http://www.fimug.fi/
(Greetings to President Mirko Nieminen.)
1996 Woodward Macintosh Users Group
http://homepage.mac.com/woodwardmug
(Congrats to President Debra Alpert and the students of Woodward
school.)
1998 MacFreak(tm) Interactive
http://www.macfreak.org/
1999 North Queensland Mac User Group
http://www.nqmug.org/
2001 Boston Final Cut Pro User Group
http://www.bosfcpug.org
(Hello to President Dan Berube and members.)
2001 Hellenic Macintosh User Group
http://www.helmug.gr
(Greetings to hard working ambassador Yannis Angelidis.)
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SPECIAL OFFERS - APPLE USER GROUP BULLETIN - December 15, 2005
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These User Group discounts are brought to you by the Apple User Group
Advisory Board and Tom Piper, vendor relations.
You must be a current Apple user group member to qualify for these
savings. Not a member? Join an Apple user group today to take
advantage of these special offers.
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1] - Pressure Drop: 10% off Monitor Stand/Combo Hub for Mac mini
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zStand is a stylish monitor stand that ingeniously incorporates a USB
2.0 and FireWire 400 combo hub. Delivering both beauty and brawn,
zStand is sized perfectly for a Mac mini, but works equally well
holding external hard drives and the like. zStand is the latest
product of the Art-Techo movement, Pressure Drop's crusade to replace
drab computer accessories with visionary peripherals that fuse
technology with art.
Normally $99.99 (US), Apple User Group members receive 10 percent off.
Coupon code
ZSTAND05MUG
Order today.
http://www.pressuredropinc.com
This U.S. only offer is valid through March 31, 2006.
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2] - Intriguing Development: Holiday Discount on iRemember
Scrapbooking
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Digital scrapbooking on the Mac is here. iRemember allows you to
create unique scrapbooks for life's precious moments. You can design,
create, edit and print scrapbooks for any occasion, then share your
albums with friends and family. All the tools you need to create
stunning scrapbooks are included to create borders, backgrounds,
frames, patterns; add text, photos, clip art and shapes; and crop your
photos.
Regularly $49.95 (US), iRemember's is reduced via this exclusive Apple
user group offer to only $39.95 (US), a 20 percent discount.
Coupon code
UG020
See what the buzz is about
http://www.macscrapbook.com
This holiday U.S. only offer is valid through December 31, 2005.
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3] - Two-for-One: Best-Selling Roxio Products
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Get Toast 7 Titanium plus The Boom Box for one low price. As the
updated industry-leading Mac CD & DVD burning suite, Toast 7
complements and extends the functionality of the Mac OS and iLife
applications with innovative new features and ground-breaking
capabilities. The Boom Box is the must-have software accessory for
iPod or iTunes users.
For a limited time (while supplies last) Apple user group members can
order both products from Roxio for only $79.99 (US), almost 50 percent
off the regular price.
Visit.
http://www.roxio.com/go/mug2006
This U.S. only offer is valid through March 31, 2006.
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4] - Quickertek: 20% Off
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Quickertek offers proven products to enhance your wireless
performance. Now, Quickertek's wireless performance products are
available to user group members at a 20 percent discount. This
includes the new Plug 'N Play antennas and transceivers, as well as
other antennas and transceiver products and PowerBook handles. Don't
forget to check out the newly-released Point-to-Point internet system!
Coupon code
QUICKERTEK2
http://www.www.quickertek.com
This U.S. only offer is valid through March 31, 2006.
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5] - Ending Soon: Learning Lab and Make Magazine from O'Reilly
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User Group Members can receive a special 50% discount on Learning Lab
Courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series:
-Linux/Unix System Administration
-Web Programming
-Open Source Programming
-.NET Programming
-Client-Side
Learning Lab Coupon code
ORALL1
http://learninglab.oreilly.com/
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Give the geek on your list a truly unique gift this holiday season:
their very own subscription to MAKE magazine, the first magazine
devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration.
Regularly $34.95 (US), $39.95 (Canada) and $49.95 (all other
countries), O'Reilly offers user group members two ways to save.
Receive a five dollar discount off the regular subscription rate.
https://www.pubservice.com/mk/SubGiftSplash.aspx?PC=MK&PK=U5OUGA
Pay full price and receive a free MAKE T-shirt.
https://www.pubservice.com/mk/SubGiftSplash.aspx?PC=MK&PK=U5OUGB
This worldwide offer is valid through December 31, 2005.
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6] - The MUG Store: Great Deals on Mac Refurbs and More
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The MUG Store: Great Deals on Mac Refurbs and More
There's plenty of time to shop at the Mug Store for your family,
friends and fellow user group members. Here are just a few of the MUG
Store's current specials on Apple Certified Refurbished Hardware:
- Mac mini 1.42 with Combo drive: $439
- Mac mini 1.42 with Combo drive and iPod shuffle: $499
- eMac 1.25 with SuperDrive and iPod shuffle: $799
- iMac G5/1.8 with SuperDrive and 20" display: $1149
- Power Mac G5/1.8 with Super Drive and 20" display: $1488
- PowerBook G4/1.5 with Combo Drive and 15" display: $1499
- PowerBook G4/1.67 with SuperDrive and 17" display: $1988
As always, get 1 percent back on everything your membership purchases:
if you encourage your members to buy from the MUG store, you can get
everything from software to new computers for your operation for FREE.
The MUG Store also has free freight to members, RAM rebates, and
aggressive pricing on new and reconditioned Macs, and of course the
largest selection of pre-owned Macs on the planet.
User ID: ipod
Password: nano
http://www.applemugstore.com.
This U.S. only offer is valid through January 31, 2006.
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For information about vendor offers and more visit
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offerss.html
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Sandy Foderick,
Editor
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Tom Piper,
Vendor Relations
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Elsa Travisano,
Text and Archival Editor
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Jeff Mosqueda,
Publisher
Apple
email@hidden
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