Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
- Subject: Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
- From: Apple User Group Relations <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:15:16 -0800
Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
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Dear User Group Leader,
Are you wondering what other groups are doing? Have you been looking for
ideas for meetings or events? Apple's User Group News and Events page
offers a look at group activities. Why not add your information too?
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/news/calendar/
Best wishes,
The Apple User Group Advisory Board
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CONTENTS
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Community News - Leaders
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1] - Unusual Meeting Locations: Macintosh User Group of Hamilton
2] - Apple Sales Web: iLife '06 and iWork '06 for User Groups
3] - MemoryMiner: GroupSmarts Loves Mac User Groups
4] - Make it Easy: All Current Offers in One Location
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members
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Community News - Members
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1] - Starting Small: Making a Big Difference
2] - Working Together: Saginaw and Midland Sponsor MacCamp
3] - Celebrating Thirty Years: Nicholas Pyers Presents at AUSOM
4] - Apple Users Group at Washington State: Campus-Wide LAN Party
5] - Having Fun: Photos and Podcasts from Macworld SF '06 and UGU
6] - Milestones
Special Offers
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1] - Discover Your Mac: Spotlight Movie Sale
2] - Wiley Books: Save up to 40 Percent
3] - The HardCover Case: 30 Percent Discount
4] - Ashalii Puzzle: 35 Percent Discount
5] - Case-mate: Premium Form-Fit Leather iPod case at $10 Off
6] - Prosoft Products: 25 Percent Off
7] - The MUG Store: Great Services for User Groups
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COMMUNITY NEWS - LEADERS
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1] - Unusual Meeting Locations: Macintosh User Group of Hamilton
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Meeting locations can be hard to come by. Even groups with long time
spots have found that their rent increases or parking decreases, and
they have to move on.
Of course, where some people find a challenge, others see an
opportunity. After years at their university, the Macintosh Users Group
of Hamilton, Ontario decided parking fees were too high and found an
excellent meeting place in the local Marlatt Funeral Home's family
center.
Does your group meet in an unusual location?
Share your ideas for places to meet.
email@hidden
(Thanks to TidBits' Adam Engst, Ambassador Alan Adams and UGAB member
Elsa Travisano for this tip.)
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2] - Apple Sales Web: iLife '06 and iWork '06 for User Groups
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Has your group reviewed iLife '06 and iWork'06 yet? Be sure to send your
reviews and links to Apple (email@hidden).
Apple Sales Web
http://sales.apple.com
iLife '06 for User Group Review and Demo - L318214A-US
iWork '06 for User Group Review and Demo - L318216A-US
(one copy of each per group)
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3] - MemoryMiner: GroupSmarts Loves Mac User Groups
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GroupSmarts, the creator of MemoryMiner, would like to show its support
for Mac User Groups by offering a free review copy as well as a free
raffle copy to Apple user groups worldwide.
MemoryMiner is a brand new Digital Storytelling application that had its
debut at Macworld San Francisco, where it received a Best of Show award.
Better yet, it is is localized in French, German, Italian, Danish,
Japanese and Traditional Chinese. Retail value is $60 (US).
Download the trial version, raffle at your user group, email the
winner's name to GroupSmarts and receive a license code for your group
and winner.
See a QuickTime 7 Demo.
http://memoryminer.com/software/video.html
Download the trial version of MemoryMiner.
http://www.memoryminer.com/downloads
Send your raffle winner's name and email address for a license code.
email@hidden
This worldwide offer is valid through August 31, 2006.
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4] - Make it Easy: All Current Offers in One Location
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Looking for information on a past offer? Tom Piper, Apple User Group
vendor coordinator, publishes a single page with all current offers,
expiration dates and codes.
Password
1/06 to 5/06
ugvendor
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offers/vendorcodes.htm
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Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
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COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS
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1] - Starting Small: Making a Big Difference
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A short while ago, Pam Borys of MacWoburn put out a call to the user
group community: Help user group members affected by hurricane Katrina.
From there her project grew. With Dave Sevick of the Pittsburgh Apple
User Groups and the South Mississippi Mac User Group, the results have
been wonderful. Dave has arranged for the refurbishment and donation of
over 100 fairly recent computers. Terry Pollard gets the word out and
Cooper Monroe helps coordinate shipments.
See what can happen when groups work together.
http://tinyurl.com/jm7mz
These groups are the definition of community.
http://macwoburn.org/
http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/
http://www.sm-mug.org/
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2] - Working Together: Saginaw and Midland Sponsor MacCamp
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The Saginaw Macintosh Users Group and Mac in Awe MUG sponsor MacCamp
multiple times each year. These are hands-on sessions, free to members,
where participants can learn new techniques, ask questions and get
answers.
Get together and learn.
http://www.smug1.com/calendar.html
http://www.miamug.com/
(Thanks to Saginaw President Betty Larsen for this tip.)
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3] - Celebrating Thirty Years: Nicholas Pyers Presents at AUSOM
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The Australian Mac Users Society of Melbourne (AUSOM Inc.) and
Australian Mac Users Group (iMUG) have a wonderful resource in Macworld
columnist and member Nicholas Pyers. To celebrate the thirty year
history of Apple Computer, Nicholas will give a series of presentations
remembering this remarkable history. If you are in the area, join him on
Saturday, May 1, in Melbourne to remember some great moments from the
last thirty years.
Get more information.
http://www.nicholaspyers.com
Australian Mac Users Society of Melbourne
http://www.ausom.net.au
Australian Mac Users Group
http://australian.macusersgroup.org
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4] - Apple Users Group at Washington State: Campus-Wide LAN Party
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On March 31, the Apple Users Group at Washington State will be hosting a
campus-wide LAN party. With give aways, pizza and extensive media
coverage, this will be a party to remember.
Party on.
http://lug.wsu.edu/wsuconIII
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5] - Having Fun: Photos and Podcasts from Macworld SF '06 and UGU
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Did you miss User Group University (UGU) and Macworld Expo? Want to see
some cool pictures of the fun day? Want to experience the sessions by
David Pogue, Bob LeVitus, Adam Engst, Chris Breen, Terry White and Guy
Kawasaki? You can through photo pages from attendees and from Podcasts
on the iTunes Music Store.
See some great pictures from Macworld '06.
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/news.html
Subscribe to the UGU Podcasts on the iTunes Music Store.
(Big thanks to Tom Piper.)
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?
id=128939218&s=143441
Or download them from here.
http://tinyurl.com/rsae9
(Thanks to Chise Mishima, Maria Arguello, Tom Piper, Jim Foster, Elsa
Travisano, Macbeth Vannoy, Ralph Woodard, Rex Covington, Brian Bantz,
Adam Jackson and and others who sent in links to their photos from
this year's Macworld Expo and User Group University.)
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6] - Milestones
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This month's milestones includes Ted Landau, who just completed his
tenth year of producing MacFixIt. Congrats Ted and thanks for ten years
of information and support!
Congratulations too, to Carol Bruml, who has just completed her fifth
year as editor for North Coast (Ohio) Mouse Tales.
This month our list sees groups whose first meeting convened as long ago
as March of 1979 and includes groups from Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong,
China, France and the U.S. Visit their web sites to see the members and
activities that contribute to user group longevity and success.
1979 AUSOM Incorporated
http://www.ausom.net.au
(Congratulations to President Ron Webster, Nicholas Pyers
and members of AUSOM.)
1982 Lockheed Martin Macintosh Users Group
http://www.lmmug.org
1984 Apple Users Group of Canterbury Inc.
http://www.appleusers.co.nz
(Thanks to secretary Peter Fitchett for this tip.)
1984 El Paso Macintosh User Group
http://www.epmug.org
(Thanks to Mara Cohn, EPMUG Scribe, for this tip.)
1985 MacBruger
http://www.macbruger.dk
1985 Nashville Mac Users
http://www.macusers.com
1986 Racine-Kenosha Mac Users Group
http://www.rkmug.org/
1987 Hong Kong Macintosh User Group
http://www.hkmug.org.hk/
1990 MacinSand
http://www.macinsand.no/
1991 TEAM Francophone
http://www.teamfr.be
2002 Beijing Macintosh User Group
http://www.beimac.com/
(Congratulations to President David Feng.)
2002 Macteens
http://macteens.com
(Greetings to Chris Saribay and officers of Macteens.)
Welcome to new group Washington and Lee University
http://home.wlu.edu/~somerville_browng/mac.htm
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SPECIAL OFFERS - Apple User Group Bulletin - March 15, 2006
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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] - Discover Your Mac: Spotlight Movie Double Your Order Sale
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Discover Your Mac announces the Spotlight Movie, a comprehensive video
guide to learning and using Spotlight, the new technology for searching,
organizing and using your Mac. Watch a demonstration of Spotlight's
powerful features, then try them yourself. For more information, email
email@hidden.
Discover Your Mac offers user group members an automatic double your
order sale. For example, order 1 copy and get 2. Order 5 and get 10.
Current price $29.99 (US) per copy.
Enter "MUG member" into the additional comments field at the bottom of
the order page, and you will automatically be shipped double your order.
Shine your spotlight on this innovative product.
http://www.DiscoverYourMac.com
This worldwide offer is valid through May 30, 2006.
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2] - Wiley Books: Save up to 40 Percent
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Wiley is offering special discount pricing on their technology books.
Choose from hundreds of invaluable resources in bestselling series such
as For Dummies, Visual, Sybex and Wrox. Whether you are looking for a
title on Mac OS X, Xcode programming, digital cameras or Photoshop,
Wiley has a how-to reference just for you.
To receive 20 percent off any Wiley title, order online. Or, to receive
40 percent off your bulk order of any five or more books (same or
different), contact Jeff Parker at email@hidden.
This discount is particularly valuable for technical and trade books not
normally discounted by Amazon and other on-line vendors.
Discount code: MACUG
Visit Wiley today.
http://www.wiley.com
This U.S. only offer is valid through June 30, 2006.
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3] - The HardCover Case: 30 Percent Discount
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The intuitive design of this case helps protect your investment by
attaching to your laptop with Velcro tabs, keeping it safe from
scratches, absorbing shock and allowing you to carry and organize loose
papers, business cards and CDs.
The HardCover is made of padded hand-stitched vinyl and comes in three
sizes: 12 inch, 15 inch or 17 inch, primarily for Apple laptops.
However, these sizes fit many PCs.
Regularly $40.00 (US), plus shipping and handling, user group members
pay only $28.00 (US).
Coupon Code: protect1
Learn more.
http://www.hardcovercase.com
This worldwide offer is valid through June 30, 2006.
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4] - Ashalii Puzzle: 35 Percent Discount
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Ashalii is a unique and challenging arcade puzzle game set in a trap in
outer space. While fitting shapes into the board, players connect
matching pieces to remove them. To escape, they must advance through
increasingly difficult levels, each requiring more adjacent matching
pieces than the last. The game features engaging space backgrounds and
attractive fractal pieces. Ashalii is for Mac OS X v10.1 or later.
The standard price is $14.95 (US), but this exclusive user group offer
lets you apply a 35 percent discount at checkout.
Coupon code: CPN8790758439
See if you can solve this puzzle.
http://curryk.com/ashalii.html
This worldwide offer is valid through June 30, 2006.
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5] - Case-mate: Premium Form-Fit Leather iPod case at $10 Off
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Rich Napa leather surrounds a specially-engineered impact-resistant
plastic shell making the Case-mate case a must-have for your iPod. Each
case is lined with ultra-soft felt, securing your iPod while allowing
complete accessibility to all features. Each case comes with a full-face
screen protector, a fully-removable belt clip and comes in eight
fashionable colors.
Purchase an iPod nano case for $14.99 (US) or video case (30Gb/60Gb)
for $19.99 (US), which is $10.00 (US) off the retail price.
Coupon Code: wizard
See what they have to offer.
http://www.case-mate.net
This worldwide offer is valid through June 30, 2006.
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6] - Prosoft Products: 25 Percent Off
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Prosoft is dedicated to creating professional quality software designed
for easy use by both novice and expert users. They are data advocates,
fighting to preserve data and prevent data loss.
Prosoft is offering Apple User Group members a special 25 percent off
the retail price of any of their software programs, including Data
Rescue II or Drive Genius, usually $99 (US), for $75 (US) and Data
Backup, Picture Rescue, or TuneTech for iPod for $45 (US), a $14.00 (US)
savings over the standard $59.00 (US) price.
Discount code: PRO247
Order Today.
http://www.prosofteng.com
This U.S. only offer is valid through June 30, 2006.
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7] - The MUG Store: Great Services for User Groups
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Let the MUG Store know if there is something they can do to help. Your
user group gets one percent back on everything your members purchase.
When your members buy from the MUG Store, your group can get a lot of
cool stuff for free.
The MUG Store also offers free freight to members, RAM rebates and
aggressive pricing on new and reconditioned Macs, plus the largest
selection of pre-owned Macs on the planet.
01/31/2006-04/30/06
User ID: User
Password: Group
http://www.applemugstore.com
This U.S. only offer is valid through April 30, 2006.
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For information about vendor offers, UGAB activities and more
visit
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab
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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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