AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/2/06
AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/2/06
- Subject: AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/2/06
- From: "Chuck Joiner" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:38:58 -0400
The MUG Center Briefing
April 2, 2006
The MUG Center
The Mac User Group Resource Site
<http://www.mugcenter.com>
CONTENTS:
1 - The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of April 3: Aaron Davis of
Apple, Chuck Joiner, iSpeech, Circus Ponies and A Whole Lot More
2 - The MacNotables Deliver Two Shows on Apple's Thirty Years
3 - Circus Ponies Scheduled for Two User Group Presentations in April
4 - Chuck Joiner Will Present "Podcasting, Productivity and More" to
Albuquerque Mac User Group
5 - Jim Dalrymple Turns Rock Star, and Talks Phones
6 - Take Control Author Delivers Top Three Suggestions for Podcasters
7 - Peachpit Announces New Meeting-in-a-Box Resource for Mac User Groups
8 - Tonya Engst Discusses Note-Taking Programs, WWDC and the Reaction to
Origami
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1 - The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of April 3: Aaron Davis of
Apple, Chuck Joiner, iSpeech, Circus Ponies and A Whole Lot More
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0402eventcal.html>
This week's calendar boasts a wide variety of topics at Mac user groups
around the world. Aaron Davis of Apple will be in Virginia, The MUG
Center's Chuck Joiner will be the iPresenter to a New Mexico Group,
Chuck Rogers of iSpeech will visit not one, not two, not three, but four
user groups in Florida, and Circus Ponies will show off NoteBook 2.0 in
Chicago. (more)
2 - The MacNotables Deliver Two Shows on Apple's Thirty Years
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0401macnotables.html>
he Mac and MUG communities are celebrating Apple's 30th anniversary
today, and the MacNotables are no exception. Two special bonus-length
shows of both panel and solo discussions with "the Mac experts you
really want to hear from," cover the impact Apple has had... (more)
3 - Circus Ponies Scheduled for Two User Group Presentations in April
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0331circusponies.html>
Circus Ponies, the publishers of NoteBook 2.0 and one of the most
frequent presenters at Mac User Groups in 2005, has two different user
group appearances scheduled for April. (more)
4 - Chuck Joiner Will Present "Podcasting, Productivity and More" to
Albuquerque Mac User Group
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0330joiner.html>
On Tuesday, April 4, MUG Center Editor Chuck Joiner will be the
"iSpeaker" (as in iChat AV) at the Applequerque Macintosh Users Group
(ABQMUG) in Albuquerque, NM. "Podcasts, Productivity, and More," the
topic for the meeting, will feature a behind-the-sceens look... (more)
5 - Jim Dalrymple Turns Rock Star, and Talks Phones
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0329macnotables.html>
Jim Dalrymple has been missing from MacNotables and now we know why: he
was attending the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, hanging out with the likes
of Jack Blades of Night Ranger, Doug Fieger of The Knack, Bruce Kulick
of KISS and more. Jim tells all about it, his makeover, where the Mac
fits in to his experiences and what it was like to play in front of a
live audience backing Roger Daltry of The Who. Will Jim leave the
Macintosh space for life on the rock and roll road? Find out, along with
Jim's thoughts on the Motorola Slivr, why he prefers his new Blackberry,
the Intel transition and more. (more)
6 - Take Control Author Delivers Top Three Suggestions for Podcasters
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0328macvoices.html>
Andy Williams Affleck, the author of the just-updated Take Control of
Podcasting On The Mac, discusses how podcasting has evolved, gives his
top three suggestions to would-be podcasters, his impressions of
GarageBand 3, outlines how he gathered the information for his book and
why he is doing a companion podcast to the eBook in addition to his
regular show. (more)
7 - Peachpit Announces New Meeting-in-a-Box Resource for Mac User Groups
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0328peachpit.html>
The Peachpit User Group Program asked us to make sure that you and your
group are aware of a new benefit that will soon be available. "If you
didn't have time to catch everything at the recent Macworld in San
Francisco, don't worry! Coming soon from Peachpit will be our Meeting-in-
a-Box: Macworld San Francisco 2006!" (more)
8 - Tonya Engst Discusses Note-Taking Programs, WWDC and the Reaction to
Origami
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/032006/0327macnotables.html>
Tonya Engst compares and contrasts the notetaking applications Sticky
Brain and NoteBook, delivers some thoughts on what each is especially
good for, comments on the rescheduling of WWDC and talks about the
Microsoft Origami announcement. (more)
9 - Coming Up This Week on The MUG Event Calendar
<http://www.mugcenter.com/mugcalendar/2006/042006.html>
Monday 3-Apr
- Virginia Macintosh Users Group - Aaron Davis of Apple
Tuesday 4-Apr
- Applequerque Macintosh Users Group - Podcasting, Productivity
and More with Chuck Joiner
- Palm Beach Macintosh Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech presents iListen
- Pennsylvania Macintosh Users Group - Producing a Podcast of Our Very Own
- Fresno Macintosh Users Group - Microsoft Office
Wednesday 5-Apr
- The Rest of Us - Circus Ponies presents NoteBook 2.0
- National Macintosh - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech presents iListen
- Cape Cod Computer Society - Word Processor Shoot Out
- Fox Valley Mac Users Group - Widgets, Freeware and Shareware
- Lawrence Apple Users Group 2.0 - BitTorrent
- Mac2MUG - "Q&A Session - iLife '06 conclusion"
- Strait Macintosh Users Group - Digital Photography
- San Diego Macintosh Users Group - Freeway
Thursday 6-Apr
- Silicon Mountain Macintosh Users Group - Bob Smith on Wildlife
Digital Photography
- Englewood Area Macintosh Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech
presents iListen
- MUGPort - "Back To Basics"
- Bux-Mont Macintosh Users Group - Working Together - Using iLife, featuring
iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD to share your photo/film library.
- Santa Fe Macintosh Users Group - Elections and Google Mania
Friday 7-Apr
- Philadelphia Area Apple Script Users Group - Tony Green on Connecting to
MySQL from AppleScript, Perl, and PHP
- Upper Keys Macintosh Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech presents iListen
Saturday 8-Apr
- Mac Mavericks - Virtual PC
- Apple Corps of Dallas - A Guided Tour of Aperture
- Main Line Macintosh Users Group - Achieving Quality Prints From Your
Digital Camera
Northwest of Us - Making A Slide Show in iPhoto with Music from iTunes
Thanks!
---Chuck
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Chuck Joiner
Editor-In-Chief
The MUG Center
http://www.mugcenter.com
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