Have you ever wanted to play the guitar but never had a chance to take lessons? iPlayMusic now makes your Mac a guitar teacher. iPlaysMusic’s award-winning softwares are on DVDs that are designed for parents and children to learn guitar, play and sing together. Quincy Carroll, CEO of iPlayMusic, will be showing off their break through music instruction softwares. http://www.iplaymusic.com/

We are moved again, this month to the Beatles Conference room. (click for more info)

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you!

Our meeting room keeps moving around, but we’re keeping the spirit of the day. From the green, green lands of Mendocino comes Macworld editor Jim Heid, here to talk about his new book “The Macintosh iLife 08”. We’ll take a look at the new stuff that iLife 08 offers, and see how these things can be used for more than you think! http://www.macilife.com

After that, SVMUG member Lynda Fudold gives us a follow-up from a previous meeting. She won a copy of Web-site creation software Sandvox a few months ago, and she’ll relate to us her experiences putting it to use.

We’ve moved for this month to the DeAnza theatre.

Data Robotics demo’s Drobo for the Feb. SVMUG Meeting. What is Drobo? Drobo keeps data safe by automatically monitoring and repairing problems that could put data at risk. It controls all aspects of storage management without any configuration or management consoles. Drobo hand down is the better back up solution than external drives and RAIDs. See why you need Drobo.

Date: Feb 18, 2008, Time: 7:00 AM. Location: Apple Town Hall on the Apple Campus in Cupertino, CA.

2 Meeting In One: Bento & TopXNotes

The SVMUG January 21, 2008 meeting will features two vendors! It is time to organize you life…

Learn all about Bento, the new personal database by FileMaker that organizes all your information in one place. Designed specifically for Mac OS X Leopard, Bento helps manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize tasks, and more. You’ll get answers to questions such as: What is Bento? Who should use Bento? How are people using Bento? What are the differences between Bento and FileMaker Pro?

Want another way to organize your life? Tropical Software will be showing “TopXNotes”, a popular note organizing system for Mac. Tropical Software will also be showing their latest application “TopXNotes iPod”.

Yes, we are still holding a meeting, even while details on the meeting seem to be changing on a daily basis. Apologies to everyone for the incredibly short notice!

We ARE holding a meeting… tonight!

Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group: Nov 2007 meeting

We will be showing Leopard: Nick Brazzi, from the Palo Alto Apple store.

Introducing new members. We have a couple.

We hope to have Jim Heid do a video iCHat here, and in-person at a later meeting.

We are doing regular Q&A. Also vendor Q&A and we will pick the forms and hand it to the vendor.

And we will then finish up and wrap up.

Dave Strom is taking notes.

Introduction of volunteers; talk to us if you want to do so.

NEWS AND RUMORS

Leopard is now out. A guy was 5th in line; the gal bedside him had her MacBook out and the net went out (power was gone), emergency lighting and remote credit card terminals still worked. Another was 200th in line at Emeryville. He left at about 6:45; they still had about 50 t-shirts left. Time machine (as of then) did not work over Airport Extreme. It was a mob; a lot lined up at the checkout counter. He feels he has 6 or 7 clients who should have it. Another at Valley Fair; the line there was pleasant. There is a We Fix Macs at Valley Fair, and they also handed out t-shirts. There seemed to be Mac entrepenuers working the crowds. (Gamers, repairs, etc.) We Fix Macs near Macys at Valley Fair (well, there when one of us saw it). If you want warrenty work, maybe an Apple store would be better.

It’s November, and after some last-minute wrangling we have our meeting lined up!

People from the Palo Alto Apple Store will be here to show us… Ta Da! Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Check out the new Time Machine backup system, see Spaces, Stacks, Quicklook, BootCamp, improved apps…. over 300 new and notable features! We may also spend some time with iLife 08 and iWork 08.

Meeting is Monday night November 19, at 7:00 pm at Apple Inc.’s Town Hall theatre, 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. Meeting is free! For directions, see the Location link in the upper right corner of the svmug.org homepage.

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SVMUG Meeting - October 15, 2007

Moderator: Charles Gousha

New People

-- Francis - moved to Silicon Valley in June - joining the group now - found us in the Apple user group listings.

-- Vinny - just checking us out - see what is up.

News and Events

iMac freeze problem - Apple acknowledges the problem and will resolve it before the end of this month. Apparently 10.4.10 is a problem for G5 iMacs. The ATI graphic drivers may be at fault.

Leopard is expected to ship in October. However, no definite word yet. Some rumors said the GM candidate is ready. Other rumors say to expect it on Friday, October 26.