AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/9/06
AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/9/06
- Subject: AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 4/9/06
- From: "Chuck Joiner" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:47:55 -0400
The MUG Center Briefing
April 9, 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 10: Andy Ihnatko,
Circus Ponies, ProSoft Engineering, iSpeech Times Three, Blogs, .Mac and More
2 - Adobe Relaunches Their User Group Program and Announces A New
Partnership with The MUG Center
3 - Graeme Moffatt's Apple Regional Liaison Report from Oceania
4 - Impressions of the MacBook Pro, MacTel External Drive Booting and
The Benefits of External Hard Drives
5 - Next Edition of MacCamp Announced by the Portland Macintosh Users Group
6 - Examining Elgato's Home Theater Options
7 - Tropical Software Goes Back On (User Group) Tour
8 - User Group University Session Audio Now Available
9 - iListen Road Show Includes Healthy Dose of Mac User Group Appearances
10 - Coming Up This Week on The MUG Event Calendar
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1 - The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of April 10: Andy Ihnatko,
Circus Ponies, ProSoft Engineering, iSpeech Times Three, Blogs, .Mac and More
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0409eventcal.html>
From Australia to Canada., from The U.S to the U.K., there are plenty of
interesting presentations and special guests at Mac user groups this
week. Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times and MacNotables will appear
in Colorado, Circus Ponies' Jayson Adams will visit the United States
nation's capital, ProSoft Engineering's Jennifer Dyer will be in
Florida, and Chuck Rogers of iSpeech continues his road show, stopping
three different times in Florida. (more)
2 - Adobe Relaunches Their User Group Program and Announces A New
Partnership with The MUG Center
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0404adobe.html>
Adobe, an organization with a long history of pro-active user group
support, has relaunched their user group program. The new program, a
result of the company's recent acquisitions and organization
restructuring, includes more focused support for not only community Mac
user groups, but also specialized support for the InDesign, Acrobat and
Developer communities. Part of the relaunch includes a new partnership
with The MUG Center. Starting today, there is a dedicated section of The
MUG Center... (more)
3 - Graeme Moffatt's Apple Regional Liaison Report from Oceania
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0407oceania.html>
Apple Regional Liaison Graeme Moffatt has filed his latest RL Dispatch
from Oceania, the territory that includes Australia and New Zealand. (more)
4 - Impressions of the MacBook Pro, MacTel External Drive Booting and
The Benefits of External Hard Drives
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0406macnotables.html>
The MacNotables do some follow-up on the issue of booting Intel Macs and
G5 Macs from the same hard drive based on listener feedback, give some
first impressions of the MacBook Pro, and the panel extols the virtues
of external hard drives... (more)
5 - Next Edition of MacCamp Announced by the Portland Macintosh Users Group
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0406maccamp.html>
Adam Steinberg of Elgato discusses their array of products available to
help you capture, manipulate and view digital content. Television, HDTV,
photos and music all are addressed by Elgato solutions, including the
EyeTV and EyeHome models. Adam talks about the home theater options for
users worldwide, how the company keeps up with the many different video
standards around the world and gives some tips on choosing which Elgato
products are right for your needs.
6 - Examining Elgato's Home Theater Options
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0405macvoices.html>
Adam Steinberg of Elgato discusses their array of products available to
help you capture, manipulate and view digital content. Television, HDTV,
photos and music all are addressed by Elgato solutions, including the
EyeTV and EyeHome models. Adam talks about the home theater options for
users worldwide, how the company keeps up with the many different video
standards around the world and gives some tips on choosing which Elgato
products are right for your needs.
7 - Tropical Software Goes Back On (User Group) Tour
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0405tropical.html>
The list of companies doing user group tours or road shows continues to
grow. The latest addition to the roster is Tropical Software. James Lee
let us know that he has confirmed several user group appearances, with
more to be announced soon. (more)
8 - User Group University Session Audio Now Available
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0404ugu.html>
The March edition of the Apple User Group Bulletin announced the
availability of audio files of the sessions held at January's User Group
University in San Francisco. Session guests include Christopher Breen,
Adam Engst, Bob LeVitus, Terry White, David Pogue and Guy Kawasaki. (more)
9 - iListen Road Show Includes Healthy Dose of Mac User Group Appearances
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/042006/0403ispeech.html>
The folks at MacSpeech are back on the road again to promote the latest
version of iListen, the speech recognition software for the Mac, and
their schedule is heavy on Mac User Groups. (more)
10 - Coming Up This Week on The MUG Event Calendar
<http://www.mugcenter.com/mugcalendar/2006/042006.html>
Monday 10-Apr
- Portland Macintosh Users Group - .Mac Groups
- London Macintosh Users Group (United Kingdom) - Ontrack Data Recover
on recovering
data no matter or how tragic or catastrophic the circumstances.
Tuesday 11-Apr
- Macintosh Multimedia Group (Australia) - Joseph Debono presents
"Podcasting Adventures -
What You Need To Know" and Nick Pyers presents "DVD Conversion for
use in iMovie Final
Cut and iPods -with-Video"
- Mount Dora Macintosh Users Group - Jennifer Dyer from Prosoft
Engineering and Chas Martin
and Jim Sanders from Connecting Point Computers
- North Florida Macintosh Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech
presents iListen
- Princeton Macintosh Users Group - Personal Mass Media: Blogs, Photo
Blogs, RSS, Podcasts, and Vidcasts
- New Hampshire Seacoast Mac Users - Open Q & A
- Oxford Macintosh Users Group (United Kingdom)- Games - a look at some
current Mac games,
with a practical session on multi-player games
- Gateway Macintosh Users Group - Communicating on the Internet
Wednesday 12-Apr
- Club Mac (Australia) - Special Interest Groups
- Bay Area Mac Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech presents iListen
- Whatcomb Macintosh Users Group - Back to Basics
- Alaskan Apple Users Group - "Oh, That's How It's Done," Portfolio 8,
The Print Shop 2.0
- Hershey Apple Core - Happy Birthday Apple, Bloglines, Analog to
Digital Conversion & (finally!) Elections
- Boston Macintosh User Group - This Old Mac
Thursday 13-Apr
- East Bay Macintosh Users Group - .Mac
- Florida Macintosh Users Group - Chuck Rogers of iSpeech presents iListen
- Waterloo Macintosh Users Group (Canada) - Computer Society
Saturday 15-Apr Washington Apple PI
- Jayson Adams of Circus Ponies presents NoteBook 2.0
Thanks!
---Chuck
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Chuck Joiner
Editor-In-Chief
The MUG Center
http://www.mugcenter.com
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