Browsing User groups

Setting Up iCloud

As you know, last October Apple made its iCloud service active. They say it is easy, and mostly it is. However there can be issues in switching from MobileMe and even from a none MobleMe user’s view point. Continue reading »

Prosoft Engineering, Inc.

Prosoft Engineering, Inc. is joining the Vendor Resource Center. They support Macs and Windows machines.
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Basic Terminal Commands

This is an old article on a blog, but one I hadn’t seen and even those of us who started on Apple DOS or PCDOS and have some idea what Terminal commands should look like will find this useful.  However even those of us who stated that way can be intimidated by being in the Terminal application for Mac OS X. NewSourceMedia blog has an article on the basic terminal commands to get you started. Continue reading »

Macs In Chemistry and Research

I have long know about a Law and a Medical website for Macintosh users in those professions. Now I have found a couple of new ones.
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AppleUsers.org

AppleUsers.org (pronounced as Apple Users dot Org) is a volunteer organization that acts as a central location for the Committees, Editors, Web Masters and other Leaders of Australian Apple User Groups to find useful resources. Continue reading »

VRC – Pearson Education, informIT

Back in the early 1990′s, I worked with Peachpit Press to provide discounted books to 3 local user groups in the DFW area. I sold enough books that I was even able to attend a Peachpit party at San Francisco Macworld Expo one year. Of course, since then there have been a lot of changes in the publishing industry. Continue reading »

Apple Corps of Dallas – Tribute to Steve Jobs

Many Macintosh User Groups around the country and indeed, the world paid tribute to Steve Jobs this past week. Continue reading »

VRC – Bare Bones Software

Bare Bones Software has become the latest addition to our Vendor Resource Center. Great products and great support of Mac User Groups.
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MUG Tributes

Of course, we have all been touched by Steve Jobs and the work he has done at Apple and Pixar. Here are a some MUG web sites that pay tribute to him. Continue reading »

Vendor Resource Center

Back in the early to mid 1990′s Fred and I and others worked with the User Group Forum on AOL to support PC & Mac User Groups on line.
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VRC – Smile Software

Our first vendor in the new Vendor Resource Center is Smile Software. Of course, Smile is always one of the first in doing anything to support Macintosh User Groups. They have a great program that providing presentations via iChat/Skype and provides product to user groups for special uses.
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ThriftMac

Last week, I presented Open Source Software to the Cowtown MUG. OSS is a great way to get good to great FREE software, but not the only way.
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FileMaker Design Workshop

 FileMaker Design Studio The Craft of FileMaker has announced they will be hosting their next Design Studio for FileMaker Pro Developers October 24th – 26th in New York City. This intensive, three day, learning experience will be lead by veteran FileMaker Developer’s Conference Speaker Don Levan, President of Vanguard Custom Software and Founder of the Craft of FileMaker.

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Customize Flags in Lion Apple Mail

This is a follow-up to the previous article. “Ask Dave Taylor” has provided an answer to “Can I customize message flags in Lion Apple Mail?”
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Apple Expo Canada July 12

Apple Expo Canada Come explore some of the best Mac, iPhone and iPad products. Meet the companies who make them. See live product demonstrations, touch and feel the latest products and learn from the best Mac, iPhone and iPad experts in Canada.

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