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iPlayMusic visits SVMUG on April 21, 2008

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)

Jim Heid for March 17 meeting

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.

Drobo Demo at Feb. SVMUG Meeting

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.

Jan 2008 Meeting: 2 Meetings in One! Bento & TopXNotes

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”.

December 17 brings the SVMUG potluck!

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!

  • Our room has moved… we’re in the Garage conference rooms, upstairs from Town Hall.
  • Our vendor has changed… Karelia Software had to cancel, but they are still offering some raffle items. Some of our members will be showing their favorite software instead. (This can include you! If you have an application or utility you can’t live without, we want to hear about it! Bring it in, and we’ll give you the stage!)

  • November 19, 2007

    Meeting Notes

    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.

    Do you have Leopard?

    Already bought it, already using it.
    63% (17 votes)
    Bought it, but haven't installed it yet.
    15% (4 votes)
    Buying soon!
    11% (3 votes)
    Now I can buy that new Mac with Leopard on it!
    7% (2 votes)
    I'll stick with my current Mac OS version.
    4% (1 vote)
    Total votes: 27

    Leopard stalks our Nov 19 meeting!

    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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    We’ve had a large number of new users on the site recently, mostly generated by spammers. In reaction, we’ve disabled a lot of users’ accounts, and we’ve deleted some accounts outright.

    Since it may not have been expressed on this site before, this is a good time to state our posting policy.

  • We are a non-profit user group focused around Macintosh and Apple Inc. While we do try to encourage community discussions on a number of topics, we generally limit the postings to materials that are either relevant to the group and its interests, or are non-commercial in nature.
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  • October 15, 2007

    Meeting Notes

    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.