UGN InfoManager

This Australian article talks about the experience switching from PC to Mac. The first thing mentioned is the learning curve. For example getting used to not having a visible button on the current MacBooks. It also mentions that the Mac doesn't have a Backspace key, just a Delete key that doesn't work like the delete key on a PC.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:08 AM |

According to an article in the Honolulu Advertiser, the Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society is presenting a full day of Macintosh activity called "Mac Springfest" net Saturday from 9 AM to 4 PM at the Japanese-American Institute of Management Science building.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:04 AM |

This month, Cowtown MUG, my hometown Mac user group had Ian Schray, the US Marketing Manager for SoftPress do an iChat presentation of Freeway Express and Freeway Pro.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:13 AM |

I had really meant to go to the ACD meeting last month. I had been working Saturdays from 3 to 9 and figured I could make the trip to Richardson in the AM and still make it back to Fort Worth for my afternoon shift. But then at the last minute the new schedule showed me starting work at noon. So that meant I could attend the main meeting and see Dr. Mac. But as it turned out, I at least could see and hear his presentation over the 'net.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:34 PM |

How often do you visit other MUGs or PCUGs web sites? I was thinking today about groups that I have been with in the past as well as the ones I still have an association.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:52 AM |

Now more than ever, the iPhone is another computer platform. I am wondering if any groups are doing the iPhone as a SIG. Or even having meetings that talk about software. Perhaps we are entering an era of the computer as an appliance, which is what Jobs envisioned for the Macintosh.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:26 PM |

It has been a long time since I have heard of a user group that actually produced and sold a piece of software. Back in the Apple II days, there was the A.P.P.L.E. from the state of Washington that produced and sold a Visi-Calc clone called THE Spreadsheet. Now come an announcement of an application written by a MUG SIG.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:58 PM |

It has been 20 years since I was a member of Washington (D.C.) Apple Pi. But I occasionally drop into their web site and take a look around.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:19 AM |

The Abilene newspaper runs a column that promotes local clubs on a regular basis. I don't know how often it runs, but I came across it in my Macintosh Google search.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:48 PM |

Deborah Shadovitz who has sponsored Party for the People in the past at MacWorld Expo, is doing her Mac Mingle party on Thursday night of Expo starting at 7 PM. Deb has been a MUG member for a long time and loves to get together with others,

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:53 PM |

Extra fun at Macworld Expo! Respected author, consultant and radio personality, Deb Shadovitz again steps into her role as social hostess for her fifth annual party at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, CA as part of the conference's external festivities. The Mac Mingle is a unique opportunity for all Macworld Expo attendees - old-timers, first-timers, software vendors, hardware vendors - to get to know one another.

Posted by Fred Showker at 6:48 AM |

Adam Engst has announced the release of the significantly rewritten "Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network," the latest in the line of Glenn Fleishman's Take Control titles about AirPort networking. They removed "Extreme" from the title due to the release of the 802.11n-based AirPort Express and Time Capsule.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:50 PM |

Washington Apple Pi presents a great Saturday line-up ... come and explore how you can use your Macintosh computer to help a retiree or near retiree with common senior citizen tasks.

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:08 AM |

We've seen the elimination of communities online before. Back in 1994, AOL decided the user group community was not profitable, so they shut us down. Now, they're eliminating another huge chunk of community services...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:27 AM |

Submissions Now Open for Web 2.0 Summit Launch Pad -- Fourth Edition Launch Pad Addresses the World's Need for Change

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:15 AM |

This is the first in a series of tutorials on dealing with and editing digital images. This month Lesa explains how resolution works and when you need to worry about it. Using the affordable, yet powerful, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, she'll show you how to resize an image fresh from your digital camera for both print and email. Hope you enjoy the tutorial!

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:40 PM |

I have found that I need to learn new ways to cope with the user groups issues now that Cowtown MUG has shrunk in size.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:45 PM |

Once, there was a table-soccer, now we have Master Kick! MUG Members get 20% off ... INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT has announced the release of new game MASTER KICK for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:30 AM |

REMINDER: These great deals from vendor supporters will expire during April and May 2008

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:24 AM |

Easily backup the entire DVD with all movies, menus, and extras in one step... take your favorite TV shows on the go with TiVoToGo transfers. You can also take ten bucks off until April 15th . . .

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:52 PM |

Mac users of Los Angeles have a new Mac event - MacDayLA -- an entire day of fun, discovering great Mac products, learning from top experts and exchanging ideas.

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:13 PM |

REMINDER: These great deals from vendor supporters will expire during February 2008

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:52 AM |

We're learning that Mac products are really a lot more fragile than they should be. Tracking the results of wear and tear on Powerbooks over the past five years shows they really need careful handling and some protection...

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:33 AM |

The MadMac group recently got a write up the Madison newspaper in an article about networking. The article started out with a relative new group that specializes in Flickr users. It finished up with a few with a couple of mention of groups at the University,
the Geek.Kon convention last fall, the Geek.Kon programs on the video games Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution. But in the middle, the MadMUG is mentioned.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:47 PM | Comments (0) |

Here's a thank-you and a special offer from the folks who make YourView for Mac...

Posted by Fred Showker at 5:46 PM |

Folks in the northwest got a shock last week with snow and bad weather. dBUG has rescheduled their classes for this coming Saturday, Dec., 8

Posted by Fred Showker at 5:37 PM |

For the past day we've had 149 attempts to place links into the 'comments' here in UGNN which redirect the user to a download site where a trojan is downloaded. During tracking this criminal, we discovered this security notice published by Intego yesterday...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:26 AM |

One of the posts in last Monday's InfoManager caused a bit of a stir -- and generated several complaints from readers that the InfoManager is interjecting politics into the posts.

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:16 AM | Comments (0) |

These MUG vendor offers will expire during October. This is a reminder.

Posted by Fred Showker at 1:41 PM |

If you suspect your Mac account has been hacked, here's what to look for. Chances are, yours is one of millions of email addresses forged to send spam...

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:34 AM |

These MUG vendor offers will expire during September. This is a reminder.

Posted by Fred Showker at 6:04 PM |

Robochan sends "thanks" to UGs along with a special one-time discount

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:51 AM |

CodeWeavers is extending a discount for Mac User Group members on their Windows-running CrossOver Mac application. EXPIRES July 31, 2007

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:40 AM |

FastMac has special user group pricing on iBook batteries, but it expires July 30, 2007

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:43 PM |

Storm Worm, Hidden In Phony E-Card Spam, Strikes Again -- ALERT: Beware of "Greeting Card" spam.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:12 AM |

Ovolab has offered a user group 25%-Off discount on their Geophoto software, but the offer EXPIRES July 31, 2007.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 12:41 PM |

Help wanted. We've set up a job listings for members ... New job openings posted daily.

Posted by Fred Showker at 2:15 PM |

Justin Berka, in his column Infinte Loop at arstecnica.com talks about the decline and eventual death of compuer user groups in general and Macintosh user groups specifically.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:00 AM | Comments (1) |

I have mentioned that the Apple Corp of Dallas, celebrating its 30th anniversary is doing video of its meetings on Google Video. I recently added podcast of Huntsville (Alabama)MUG and ColoradoMUG of Boulder.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:11 PM | Comments (1) |

Posted today at:
http://www.user-groups.net/info/0610-09.html

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:01 AM |

This web site concentrates on issues that Apple customers are complaining about.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:45 AM |

The "Mug InfoManager for Monday, September 25, 2006" has been posted here in full ...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:30 AM |

WasApplePi Presents "Socket in Pocket" Workshop At Tysons Corner VA Apple Store... don't miss it...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 3:25 PM |

Seems people are looking for a user group and not finding one...

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:45 AM |

Yes, I've also updated the Net Neutrality coverage with another week's news, views and reivews. This time with improved editorials, and opinion pieces. Whew... glad to at last see some sense coming into the issues. ... See it at:

http://www.user-groups.net/safenet/net_neutrality.html

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:46 AM |

I've posted the latest MUG InfoManager at:
www.user-groups.net/

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:46 AM |

... or, The Bandwidth Wars

Posted by Fred Showker at 3:45 PM | Comments (0) |

Lynn wrote in Monday's InfoManager...
. . . "Apple has started accepting not only Macs with at purchase of a Mac, but also various PCs. The specifics are available at the web site. "

Fred posts his comments.

Posted by Fred Showker at 9:45 AM | Comments (0) |

June 3 the Panhandle Macintosh User Group (PMUG) of Pensacola FL

Posted by Fred Showker at 1:50 PM |

A UGNN reader needs to fill 40 "C" Developer positions.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:09 AM |

Summer is nearly hear. I am curious about how groups spend their summer. I know that some take the summer off.

I'm inviting groups to comment to this entry...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:40 AM | Comments (1) |

Register your group...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 11:21 AM |

I've posted the latest MUG InfoManager at:
www.user-groups.net/info/0604-24.html.

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 7:16 AM | Comments (4) |

I had a call the other day from a corporation in the Great Lakes area who had a good series of job openings for computer savvy users. He asked if I could give him some references... What happened next should not have happened...

Posted by Fred Showker at 2:23 PM |

Getting up to speed on Adobe products may not be as easy as it looks...

Posted by Fred Showker at 2:02 PM | Comments (0) |

I've posted this morning's InfoManager...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:25 AM |

Peachpit has announced a new Meeting-in-a-Box Resource for Mac User Groups...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:30 AM | Comments (0) |

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 3:39 PM | Comments (0) |

Hear it from an expert a the school system just like yours...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:30 AM | Comments (0) |

Pass this along to your members...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:25 AM | Comments (1) |

I've posted the InfoManager for today... CONTINUE READING >>>

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:59 AM | Comments (0) |

$22 million in grants, but only for PCs ?

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:49 AM | Comments (1) |

Internet safety advocates have been watching the trend for some time -- now news of MySpace.com leading sexual predators and online criminals to minors has media and law endorcement attention ...
Continue Reading...

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:23 AM | Comments (0) |

This update to last week's "Pump and Dump" article provides reader feedback and updated industry warnings ... Continue Reading...

Posted by Fred Showker at 4:00 PM | Comments (0) |

This article shares some links and reference to the arts, innovation and creativity contributions of the black community. It would also be an appropriate topic for your user group discussion or meeting for February.

Dedicated to Coretta Scott King -- wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

CONTINUE READING

Posted by Fred Showker at 7:19 AM |

Your computer is stolen. What do you do? You have a 1 in 14 chance of getting your computer stolen -- about one computer theft every 53 seconds. ... Continue Reading

Posted by Fred Showker at 11:27 AM | Comments (0) |

I've posted my 60-Second Window article #179 "Pump & Dump Stock Scams" ... another of those traps from online crime... be careful trading stocks...

Posted by Fred Showker at 8:06 AM | Comments (0) |

How does your Mac user group handle January meetings during Macworld?

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 9:10 AM | Comments (0) |

Washington Apple Pi, Washington DC area's Mac user group, will present 2 special seminars at Tysons Corners, VA, Apple Store in Jan 2006

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 6:06 PM | Comments (0) |

Need a quick meeting idea? Bill Achuff (UGA) shares his favorites...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:43 AM | Comments (3) |

in this week's User Group Network

Posted by Fred Showker at 12:15 PM | Comments (1) |

An article with the above title appears in the Stanford Cardinal newspaper and it led to a quote in the Mac Observer that appeared to make Woz look somewhat bitter about where software stands today. However, the actual quote is:

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 8:23 PM | Comments (0) |

This is for user group leaders to announce...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 3:22 PM | Comments (0) |

What type of meeting is your group running? I ask because the group that I am most active with has been shrinking for some time and I think we need to do something different...

Posted by Lynn Wegley at 10:32 PM | Comments (0) |