Meeting Schedule:
Our next meeting will be on SATURDAY, May 10, 2008.
The May speaker will be our own President Bruce Brown. Bruce, who also offers private Mac support, is a fountain of Mac and general computer expertise.
At the May meeting Bruce will be covering things you should know about your Mac - but may not. Bruce will share his knowledge about such important considerations as System Preferences, keyboard shortcuts, dealing with peripherals, and software considerations. Bruce also will show you things you can do to better use your Mac.
After the Q&A session and prior to Bruce’s presentation, members will participate in an official business meeting to consider and vote upon the proposed SMOG Bylaws. (These are the Bylaws that Elaine sent you by e-mail.)
Join us at the May meeting to learn more about your Mac - and (for members) to vote on the proposed Bylaws.
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The April speaker was our own Vice President Elaine Stannard. Elaine’s presentation was entitled “A Dummy’s Take On Safari.” This presentation covered the many things you can do with Safari.
Everybody knows that Safari is Apple’s own Internet browser. But did you know that you can add dozens of Bookmarks to allow you to quickly go to dozens of your most frequent web sites? Did you know that Safari keeps track of the last few hundred web pages you went to today - and that you can instantly return to any of them? Did you know that you can instruct Safari to delete this past history - so no one will know where you’ve been? Did you know that Safari can have many web sites open at the same time?
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The presenter at our March meeting was iMentor Rick Thues, who gave an in-depth presentation of iMovie ’08.
With iMovie 7, you can import video from a tape or digital video camera; divide the video into clips; re-arrange the clips by dragging and dropping; turn off the original sound; add new sounds from a microphone or iTunes; add titles to the beginning and/or end; and run the final result at any time to see how it is. You can post the final result on your web site (doesn’t everyone have a web site?), post it to YouTube; e-mail it to friends, and/or burn it to a DVD.
Until very recently, doing this would have required several hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment and a team of highly-skilled professionals. Now you can do a pretty good imitation for a token amount of money.
To get a preview of the application’s newest features, see <http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/>.
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Arrive early for best seating at the next meeting.
We begin our meetings with a Question and Answer session from 9 to 10 a.m., where there are no bad questions and lots of helpful answers. Immediately afterwards, from 10 a.m. to noon, we hold our general meeting and the month’s presentation.
Our next three meeting dates are: May 10; June 14; and July 12.
For more information, or to be added to our SMOG Alert meeting notice list, write to SMOGINFO (at) MAC.COM. In that e-mail address, please replace the “(at)” and the spaces before and after the “(at)” with the “@” symbol. We have typed the e-mail address this way to protect ourselves from spammers.
SMG does not rent, sell or give member or inquiry information - such as your name or e-mail address - to any outsiders.
