Learn what Apple Pi members experienced when they attended America’s largest Apple/Macintosh convention earlier this month in San Francisco, Falls Church, VA, January 24, 9:30 a.m.
Hear about the new and updated non-Apple products announced at MacWorld, behind-the-scenes intrigues, and developments that did not make the nightly news.
This meeting isn’t going to be your run-of-the-mill Macworld review of formal Apple presentation content about Apple products introductions, and hottest third-party hardware and software products and services. It will be a blend of announcements and information, important and otherwise, that might make a difference to you!
Our regular Question and Answer will start the meeting followed by essential club news. Next, we take a short coffee break before the main event. We will end the general meeting with a raffle drawing for an iPod touch!
Following a half hour light food break (food and cola supplied with donations accepted to share cost), the afternoon program begins with four concurrent afternoon special interest group (SIG) sessions for members and guests. The New User/OS X-Basics SIG addresses basic how-do-I-to-do-it on a Macintosh tasks and attendee questions. iLife SIG, the second session, will focus on how-to-do-it using one or more of the five software products in Apple’s iLife suite. In the third session, Len Adler will share his genealogy experiences using Geni.com with the Genealogy SIG. The Mobility Meetup group will discuss the operation of, and applications for, the iPhone and iPod Touch handheld computers. These afternoon seesions end about 2:00 p.m.
Washington Apple Pi
January 24, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
Luther Jackson Middle School
3020 Gallows Road, Falls Church, Virginia
Meeting is free and open to the public. The public is invited to join Washington Apple Pi for this exciting learning experience. Attend morning session or afternoon as your schedule permits.
Check the Washington Apple Pi website, wap.org, for additional details about our January MacWorld meeting, including need to park on Luther Jackson’s basketball court (where school busses normally are on week-ends).
Directions from Capital Beltway, I-495: Take the Washington Beltway I-495 to US Route 50 West (Arlington Boulevard), exit 50. Make your way to the inner roadway, staying right at the Y to go north on Gallows Road (Virginia Route 650). Make a left turn at the stop light at Gatehouse Road. Make the first right turn onto school property, and proceed to park on the school’s basketball court. Walk along west edge of building towards the tennis courts and door 7. Entering the school at Door 7, a Greeter will welcome you and direct you to our meeting room, a short walk up hallway’s incline to multi-purpose room on your right. Map to Luther Jackson Middle School, 3020 Gallows Road, is at http://www.fcps.edu/maps/jackson.htm.
Directions from Dunn Loring Metro: Take Orange subway line to Dunn Loring Metro station. Board the Fairfax Connector 401 bus with destination sign Franconia-Springfield Metro. Ride bus about seven minutes, disembarking at Gatehouse Road. School is on northwest corner of Gatehouse Road and Gallows Road. Walk around and enter the school to Door #7 facing the tennis courts. Alternatively, in nice weather, it is a pleasant walk along Gallows Road from Dunn Loring Metro to the school. Busses on Saturday run on approximately hourly intervals.
