Our May 17 Meeting

     Our May 17 PMUG meeting was an enjoyable time for learning and socializing. President David Passell started off with introductions of visitors.  Kenneth & Pat Greenlee, and Clarence & Joan Feiereisel joined the club, and Howard LaPittus rejoined.  Chris Shovel and Norman Foster were guests, also.

     Roger Lakner gave a demonstration of Banner Zest, from the website www.aquafades.com.  He told us how easy it is to use and showed examples of interesting layouts of photos chosen, sized, and arranged for a website or blog.
       With Don's help I gave a presentation on Exploring Google Earth, especially for new users. With a printed handout we looked at how to find it, how to fly to various locations and viewed features such as tourist attractions, 3D buildings, and controls.  Thanks to John Carter for his input.  After showing the Google Sky feature we closed with a quick look at Don's favorite Widgets.  If you want a copy of this handout Erica will be posting it via the Ambassador site.
       After the Cookie Break the short business meeting was open to nominations for officers.  See Bobbie Pastor's minutes of the meeting.  Voting will take place in June.
     Newly printed PMUG brochures, hot off the press from friends at Think4Ink were handed out for us to share at businesses, as well as give to friends and likely prospects. From our PMUG website anyone can click on Guest Pass to bring up the pdf and then print it out themselves.  It's a sharp looking piece!
     Dan and Erica Simpson reminded us that the June SIG meets on the 28th instead of the usual second Saturday.  Remember, you can subscribe to iCal and keep up to date.

More About May

Another successful SIG takes its place in PMUG history.  On May 10 Dan Simpson's Keynote presentation was "Choosing a Scanner and Scanning Slides and Old Photographs," and he had scanners set up for demonstrations. You had a scheduling conflict and couldn't attend?  Soon the pdf will be posted.  On the PMUG home page go to About Us and click on "SIG" Q & A Session. There find the list of pdfs for an easy download.  Oh, you also missed about 35 different flavors of tea and coffee, along with munchies that Erica set out. 

January - February 2008

Never a dull moment! January flew by. MacWorld made news, again. Now, we’re immersed in February, with a little wind, sprinkles of rain and photogenic flakes of snow. Ah, here comes the sunshine again. All the while our PMUG members have been busy and productive.

Bobbie Pastor contributed the photos on this page, and a slideshow of her photos were shown as screen savers at our February meeting.

David Passell is now our president. Bob Hale has resigned, citing opportunities in his personal and professional life.

Dan and Erica Simpson attended MacWorld in San Francisco. In addition to their blog at http://web.mac.com/twoweims/MacWorld2008/Blog/Blog.html we can view a slideshow at http://web.mac.com/twoweims/MacWorld2008/Photos.html that features some photos of California.

Jim and Zee Hamm also attended MacWorld in January. Scroll down past my closing words to read their glowing account.

David Passell’s article, “Keeping Those Old Macs Useful” was published in December. Check it out at http://lowendmac.com/myturn/my07/1210.html . From this site we also learn that David is referred to as General Lud.

SIG on February 9 up-dated members on events of the MacWorld. Following up at the General Meeting on February 16 Dan and Erica elaborated on some of the outstanding Mac and Mac-related products which made their debut.

Kent Jewell gave a presentation on iPhoto and iMovie with the addition of audio. We also learned about the problems that stick-on labels on CDs and DVDs can cause. Dan described the Epson printer carrier which enables directly printing on the discs.

As your newsletter editor I’m just getting started. It would be fun to hear what you are doing. Drop me an e-mail to edpr@commspeed.net with subject line including the words, “PMUG newsletter.” Thanks!

Elaine Hardt 2-17-08