AUGD: Mug InfoManager for Monday, February 29, 2010
AUGD: Mug InfoManager for Monday, February 29, 2010
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InfoManager for Monday, February 29, 2010
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 UGNN Salutes MVCUG
02 New AUG - 1st Meeting
03 Dreamweaver Killer
04 UGNN salutes DVMUG
05 Late Night with David Pogue Parts 1-4
06 Wondershare DVD to iPad Converter
07 Apple's North Carolina center
08 IMHO - MacWorld Expo
09 DMG Canvas 2.0 Released
10 Mailbag: Converting fonts?
11 Mailbag: GK on FaceBook
12 Mailbag: Airplane Boneyard
13 Jurassic Realm comes to Mac
14 CorkBoard for Keynote
15 Leisure: iPad Photos?
16 Quotes: Excellence!
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01 UGNN Salutes MVCUG
Mountain View Computer Users Group
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/salute-mvcug/
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02 New AUG - 1st Meeting
Palmettobug, apparently a service provider for all computers
has announced the the first meeting of the Lowcountry Apple
User Group in North Charleston, South Carolina.
The first meeting will be at 6 PM on March 16th
at Rehava in North Charleston.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/new-aug-1st-meeting/
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03 Dreamweaver Killer
After a long beta development period, Flux 2 from The
Escapers has left it's beta status behind. Throughout
development, Flux has increasingly been regarded as
becoming a contender to Adobe's Dreamweaver.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/dreamweaver-killer/
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04 UGNN salutes DVMUG
Diablo Valley Macintosh User Group
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/mug-salute-dvmug/
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05 Late Night with David Pogue Parts 1-4
YouTube appears to have the complete show.
The only problem is, that it comes in about 10 minutes segments.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/late-night-with-david-pogue-parts-1-4/
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06 Wondershare DVD to iPad Converter
According to their web site:
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/wondershare-dvd-to-ipad-converter/
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07 Apple's North Carolina center
Last year Apple agreed to build a huge data center in
North Carolina in exchange for a pretty large tax break.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/apples-north-carolina-center/
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08 IMHO - MacWorld Expo
Even though I didn't make it this year, I have gotten
a number of reports on the success of MacWorld Expo 2010.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/imho-macworld-expo/
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09 DMG Canvas 2.0 Released
Araelium Group announced this week the release of version
2.0 of its DMG Canvas disk image creation application for
Mac OS X. DMG Canvas builds disk images from template
documents that users create. Simply design your disk
image's appearance using the graphical
WYSIWYG editor and click Build.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/dmg-canvas-2-0-released/
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10 Mailbag: Converting fonts?
An InfoManager reader in San Jose wrote in to ask :
If I send you the fonts created by me, can you convert them
to unicode fonts? Because I can't use my fonts in mellel.
Please help me to solve this problem. Thank You
So, who can help this reader? Who knows of a freeware or
shareware font converter? Please let me know.
Http://www.ugnn.com/
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11 Mailbag: GK on FaceBook
Catch up with the famed user group personality Gary Kampel.
He's stacking quite a few posts on the PBMug Yahoo group.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pbmug/ PBMUG is the
oldest Apple User Group in Palm Beach County,
Florida. Oh, he's on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/gekampel
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12 Mailbag: Airplane Boneyard
We already told you about Google Map alphabets
... now the Photoshop Diva herself, Katrin Eismann pointed out
"The airplane boneyard" ... Google aeral photography of the
Federal Government's storage of derelict airplanes.
http://tinyurl.com/ylmqg5q
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13 Jurassic Realm comes to Mac
Are you ready for a return to prehistoric times?
What to kill a little time? Independent game developer
Enkord, Ltd. has rolled out Jurassic Realm, their
new action puzzle game for Mac OS X.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/jurassic-realm-comes-to-mac/
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14 CorkBoard for Keynote
Keynote Zone has announced CorkBoard - a new Keynote theme.
The lively and simple CorkBoard theme gives you a chance to
arrange your presentation as if you are simply placing
different notes and pictures on a real board.
The theme includes 33 layouts, custom designed charts and tables.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/02/corkboard-for-keynote/
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15 Leisure: iPad Photos?
Just for the fun of it I sometimes search for current
items I'm writing about. You might enjoy this:
http://ow.ly/1ccz9
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16 Quotes: Excellence!
A toast to our Olympic Athletes of excellence:
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to
their commitment to excellence, regardless of
their chosen field of endeavor.
--Vince Lombardi
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
--Booker T. Washington
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park.
Aim for the company of the immortals.
--David Ogilvy
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A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred Showker.
Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network.
He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet
and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member,
he's served as volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and
many points in between.
Currently working primarily the with the Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth
but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime
member of TUMS the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society).
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum
days, then out onto the web.
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