AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 2/19/06
AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 2/19/06
- Subject: AUGD: The MUG Center Briefing - 2/19/06
- From: "Chuck Joiner" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:29:26 -0500
The MUG Center Briefing
February 19, 2006
The MUG Center
The Mac User Group Resource Site
http://www.mugcenter.com
1 - The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of February 20: Neil Hitchcock
and Tyrone Ramos of Apple, Garr Reynolds on Blogging, Andescotia and
Final Cut Pro User Group Meetings
2 - The Future of MUGs: User Groups 2.0
3 - Getting Technical with the Intel iMac and Universal Binaries with
Ted Landau on MacNotables
4 - User Group Events at Macworld Expo Draw Mixed Results
5 - Overview of New .Mac Features by Joe Kissel on MacVoices
6 - Red Rock Software Extends User Group Discount Deadline
7 - Dennis Sellers Discusses Global Contributors, Replacing Equipment
and Why You Can't Escape the iPod on MacNotables
8 - Coming Up This Week on The MUG Event Calendar
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1 - The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of February 20: Neil Hitchcock
and Tyrone Ramos of Apple, Garr Reynolds on Blogging, Andescotia and
Final Cut Pro User Group Meetings
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/022006/0219eventcal.html>
Lots of interesting meetings going on this week at Mac User Groups
around the globe, including presentations by Apple, authors and multiple
Final Cut Pro User Group meetings. (more)
2 - The Future of MUGs: User Groups 2.0
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/022006/0217ug20.html>
How are user groups doing in the 21st century? That's an open question.
Judging by the number of stories covered here on The MUG Center, there
is plenty of excitement and activity in the world of Mac User Groups. At
the same time, when we all attend conferences or discussions of MUG
leaders or enthusiasts, the questions being raised are the same ones
that have been plaguing user groups for years... (more)
3 - Getting Technical with the Intel iMac and Universal Binaries with
Ted Landau on MacNotables
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/022006/0215macnotables.html>
Ted Landau gets technical with the new Intel iMac in a discussion of
Open Firmware vs. Extensible Firmware Interface, GUID partitions and
more. He also talks about why you might want to run certain Universal
Binary applications in PowerPC mode, and outlines a few "gotcha's" for
the new or soon-to-be-new Intel Mac owner. (more)
4 - User Group Events at Macworld Expo Draw Mixed Results
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/012006/0215survey.html>
The lastest TMC Survey question asked you to rate the Mac User Group
Events at Expo. Many of you took us up on the challenge and the results
are in. (more)
5 - Overview of New .Mac Features by Joe Kissel on MacVoices
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/012006/0214macvoices.html>
Joe Kissell, the author of the just-updated Take Control of .Mac ebook,
talks about the latest updates to Apple's .Mac service, including new
bandwidth allocations, new features and some overlooked aspects of .Mac
and the use of .Mac groups. How Apple is tying in the iLife '06 apps
to .Mac and why that ends up adding both value and cost, and how Take
Control ebooks get updated to deliver the most current information
possible are all included in the discussion. (more)
6 - Red Rock Software Extends User Group Discount Deadline
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/022006/0214redrock.html>
Red Rock Software have extended their special user group pricing on all
of their titles (excluding the user guides), and that includes their
flagship product, DeltaGraph Mac. (more)
7 - Dennis Sellers Discusses Global Contributors, Replacing Equipment
and Why You Can't Escape the iPod on MacNotables
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/022006/0213macnotables.html>
Dennis Sellers returns to tell us about his experiences at and after
Macworld Expo and why he is having to replace all his Mac equipment, why
Macsimum News has contributors from all over the world and the
increasing pervasiveness of the iPod. (more)
8 - Coming Up This Week on The MUG Event Calendar
<http://www.mugcenter.com/mugcalendar/2006/022006.html>
Thanks!
---Chuck
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Chuck Joiner
Editor-In-Chief
The MUG Center
http://www.mugcenter.com
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