NCMUG News

July 15th, 2008 General Meeting

Heather Menchine Consultant, Avery Dennison Software Marketing, Avery Software and Template Solutions Avery Dennison.

See how to easily design a range of Avery printable products, such as business cards, note cards, labels, t-shirts and more with the new DesignPro® for Mac® software. You can have a themed set of projects in minutes!

August 19th, 2008 General Meeting

Jim Heid, Author and Senior Contributor Macworld Magazine

Mr. Heid specializes in, he says, "all the stuff that uses up your hard drive space": photography, video, and audio. He's the author of "The Macintosh iLife '08," the sixth edition of the world's top-selling iLife book, and in August, he joins us to share his favorite tips for iLife and related topics. Come for an entertaining evening of camera tips, movie-making tips, and insights galore into iPhoto, the all-new iMovie '08, iWeb, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and much more. Jim is always a popular speaker at NCMUG, so arrive early!

September 2008 MCE Returns!
No regular NCMUG meeting BUT we will have our 15th Mac Computer Expo on Saturday September 27th at the Glaser Center (547 Mendocino Ave SR).

October 21st, 2008 General Meeting

Jon Jones, NCMUG board member

Jon is a multimedia specialist and owner of Lunarparcel Media, specializing in family and community oriented media production. After nearly three decades of working with various forms of digital, analog and antiquated media, Jon has developed a passion for helping individuals and families develop their personal digital 'footprints', digitizing the recorded traces of their lives to share and archive for future generations. Whether your own experiences or the memories of loved ones are saved on photographs, videotape, film, or audio recordings, the Macintosh platform offers a variety of methods for bringing your life stories into the digital age. During the October general meeting, Jon will offer a number of practical steps for tracing, capturing and sharing your own digital 'footprints' in time for the upcoming gift-giving season.

November 18th, 2008 General Meeting

Ian Schray, Marketing Manager of Softpress Systems, Ltd.

Freeway is the tool-of-choice for professionals seeking real commercial advantage, and also for talented web creators needing an application that's powerful, fully-featured and intuitive. Incorporating dynamic content and database information, advanced graphic handling and text on-the-fly, and the generation of standards-compliant code--Freeway is THE indispensable tool for web design.