Our next meeting is on Monday, January 16, 2012 & guess what? We are back to our usual Google room over by the hair cut van.
SPEAKER & TOPIC:Philip Goward, co-founder of the company named
Smile, will be offering a sneak preview of
PDFpen for iPad prior to the product's Macworld release! This great new product brings powerful PDF editing capabilities to the iPad platform. From their site: The current PDFpen for Mac allows you to edit PDFs easily! Add text, images and signatures. Make corrections. Fill out PDF forms. Merge, delete and reorder pages. Come see what the iPad will be able to do too!
But wait…there's more!In addition to the PDFpen for iPad, we'll see the latest developments in the
PDFpen and
TextExpander products for the Mac.
A Bit of History: You may recall that long ago before iPhones and iPads were on the scene, the company was solely focussed on Macs and hence the company name was SmileOnMyMac. Well, they are still smiling and making their customers smile while creating additional software that works on iPhones and iPads. Their product list includes: PDFpen, PDFpenPro, DiscLabel, TextExpander, TextExpander touch.
http://www.smilesoftware.com And one more thing…Philip is bringing something for our raffle too!
OPEN SOURCE CORNER -
Google App Engine (Cortland will show how he built an open source web app with it)
MEETING ROOM LOCATION (We are back to our usual room!)We will be meeting at Google, in the Bodega Bay Tech Talk Room. If you have not been here before, please allow for some extra time to find the room and please please please look at the specific map and pictures mentioned below. Often there is a giant white mobile "Hair Cut van" parked in the lot near where the cafeteria for Google employees and the Bodega Bay room are located. If you are lost, please call 408-877-6377 and we will try to get you to the right place.
Bodega Bay Tech Talk RoomGoogle
1950 Amphitheater Parkway
Mountain View, California 94043
MAP and
pictures are on a SVMUG Wiki entry (see link below)
http://www.svmug.org/groups/svmug/wiki/6def0/BODEGA_BAY_ROOM.html MORE PHOTOSIf you log into the svmug yahoo group, click on the Photos link to see photos of the hair cut van and the side area of the Google building near where the meeting room is located. The room is behind the trees in the photo.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/photos/album/1019640305/pic/list
DIRECTIONS: -- From Highway 101, take the Amphitheater Parkway exit, which is also Rengstorff Avenue; Head North.
-- Turn right (East) onto Charleston Rd.
-- Turn left (North) onto the Google complex, third driveway entrance.
-- Go to the position A in the map shown.
-- Look for the entrance shown on the map.
NOTE: If you are coming from the other direction on Charleston (coming from the East and driving West), once you cross the creek's bridge, turn RIGHT at the first driveway and go along the right side of the Google building. You'll most likely see the big white hair cut van parked there. You want to park near here. Look at the map to verify the driveway's location since it is hard to see in the dark.
BREAK TIME: During the Break, we nibble on yummies that attendees bring to the meeting. If you are able to do so, please bring some sort of finger-food. There aren't any beverages available usually so if you would like something to drink, please bring your own in a seal-able container, such as a water bottle.
TIME SCHEDULE:6:45 PM - Doors open around this time
7:00 PM - Introduction
7:05 PM - News
7:45 PM - Presentation: Smile Software
8:30 PM - Break time - attendees bring food
8:45 PM - Open Source corner - Google App Engine
9:00 PM - Group Q & A
9:15 PM - Finish up and Raffle
9:30 PM - All done! Clean up after ourselves and go.
2012 CALENDAR Jan 16 - Smile (makers of PDFPen and TextExpander)
Jan 26-28 - Macworld Expo
Feb 27 - Macworld Expo reports --
note the different date!Mar 19 - open
Apr 16 - open
NOTE:
We are working on a few vendors - who would you like us to bring in?
