Keith Alperin, the Founder of Helium Foot Software, has extended special Mac User Group pricing on their productivity product, MercuryMover.

Don’t like to take your hands off the keyboard? Then MercuryMover is for you. Move, resize or reposition windows on your Mac right from the keyboard. MercuryMover includes shortcuts, multiple monitor support and more.

Want to know more? Listen to Keith discuss MercuryMover’s full feature set on MacVoices #8135, then take advantage of the special 25% discount by visiting the Helium Foot Software Store.

While you’re there, be sure to consider Keith’s partnership with the National Cancer Coalition and how you might help.

This MUG Center-exclusive offer is available to Mac User Groups worldwide and expires on February 28, 2009.

Think that the impending holiday season is slowing down Mac User Groups? Think again.

The MacNotables panel of Adam and Tonya Engst and Chuck Joiner will present virtually to an Ohio Group, and author and Mac expert Joe Kissell will visit a student group in Massachusetts. MacReviewCast personality Tim Verpoorten will visit a California group, and at that same meeting, Greg Scown of Smile On My Mac will show off the latest version of PDFpen. Software developer. Software developer Norbert Doerner will visit two different Arizona groups to show off his program CDFinder, and Adobe and Avid will visit a California FCP group.

Other topics on this week’s agenda include more holiday parties, dinners and an auction, iPhoto, web security, iWeb, Keynote, Logic Express and Pro, gift ideas, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and more.

If your group is missing in action, emaiil your group’s meeting information to The MUG Center. Everyone will see it on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing, and know that you’re still breathing.
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The MacNotables team of Adam and Tonya Engst and Chuck Joiner had such a good time at their recent presentation to the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group that they’re going to do it again.

Tonya Engst

Adam Engst

Chuck Joiner

On Saturday, November 22, the team will travel virtually to the Northeast Ohio Apple Corps (NEOAC) to take questions from the group, talk about the latest developments in the Mac industry, their favorite hardware and software, and more. If possible, the show will be captured and published as an episode of MacNotables (this time avoiding watercolor mode).

Visit the NEOAC web site for details on time, location and visitor policies to find out how you can particpate, and the MacNotables web site for the video of the Huntsville appearance, as well as more shows from “The Mac Experts You Want to Hear From.”

Another MUG Event Calendar, another busy week for Mac User Groups around the globe.

Andrew Taylor of MacSpeech will show off their newest product to a MUG in Hawaii (tough duty, Andrew), and Product Managers Mike Berkow and Andrew Bartlett of Quark will present to an Ohio group.

To no one’s surprise, there will be discussions about Apple’s new laptops at several groups, and the time of year starts to influence MUG presentations as holiday gift guides start to appear on the calendar.

Other topics this week include an in-depth look at preview, lynda.com, a FCPUG soiree, social networking apps, databases, distributed computing, photo restoration and more.

Why not beat your holiday rush and email your group’s meeting information to The MUG Center. That’s one less thing yo have to do later, and then everyone will see it on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing.
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This week’s MUG Event Calendar features some “notable” presentations.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will present to a student group in Massachusetts, and members of the MacNotables panel will be visiting two different MUGs this week. Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will be the guest of honor at a Illinois group, and Adam and Tonya Engst and Chuck Joiner will make a virtual visit to an Alabama group to tape an edition of the show. Graphics expert Stephen Burns will show off the new Adobe Photoshop CS 4 to a California group.

Other topics on this week’s agenda include smart home technology, eBay, social networking sites, Roxio Toast and Popcorn, Automator, podcasts, online security and much more.

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Individual members of the MacNotables panel making MUG presentations are hardly a rare thing. Doing a live, remote taping at a MUG meeting is.

On Saturday, November 8, Adam and Tonya Engst of TidBITS and Take Control books and Chuck Joiner of MacVoices and The MacJury will virtual-visit the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group’s monthly meeting together, and tape a special edition of MacNotables.

Tonya Engst

Adam Engst

Chuck Joiner

The panel will discuss the latest news from the Apple universe, some of their favorite programs and more, each from their unique perspectives.

Visit the HMUG web site for information on time, location and visitor policies.

No tricks, only treats, on this week’s MUG Event Calendar.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will present to a Pennsylvania group, while Adobe expert Mike McHugh will show off Photoshop in Australia.

Other topics on this week’s list include slideshows, several meetings focused on Adobe Creative Suite 4, iWork, social media for businesses, MobileMe, Bento by FileMaker, Elgato’s EyeTV and more.

If you don’t email your group’s meeting information to The MUG Center, it doesn’t have a ghost of a chance of appearing on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing.
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A wide and varied set of events and presentations mark this week’s MUG Event Calendar.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will help a Texas group celebrate their 30th anniversary, Mac expert and author Jim Heid will virtual-visit a student group in Massachusetts, and Apple Senior Systems Engineer Tim Matheny will present to a group in Tennessee. Google will show off their many wares to a California MUG, while members of several European Mac User Groups will man the MUG stand at this week’s MacLive Expo in the United Kingdom, and an Oregon user group tradition continues with the gathering known as MacCamp.

That’s far from all, however. Two California Final Cut Pro groups have fill agendas for their October meetings, a Canadian group will focus on a screen capture program and zombies (zombies?), and Mac User Groups everywhere will be buzzing about Apple’s new laptop options.

There seems to be some confusion about how to get listed on the MUG Event Calendar. Write this down: Just email your group’s meeting information to The MUG Center and it will magically appear here, on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing. Got it? Good.
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The October meeting of the Houston Area Apple User Group (HAAUG) will mark their 30th anniversary celebration. Thirty years in business as a Mac User Group is worthy of a party, and who better to have as the guest speaker than Bob “Dr. Mac” Levitus.

Bob will visit HAAUG to deliver one of his trademark “State of the Mac” addresses that will cover not only Apple’s new hardware announcements of iPods, MacBook Pro’s, MacBooks and MacBook Airs, but also some of his favorite programs and utilities that are both useful and fun.

The party starts at 9 AM on October 25th at the Bellaire Civic Center. Visit the HAAUG web site for directions and information on how you can join in and see Dr. Mac live and in person.

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, Oct 22 at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood, CA beginning at 6:45PM.

Scheduled to appear will be Kevin Wyatt from Baseline Studio Systems to talk about the Baseline Studio System, the entertainment industry’s most powerful film and television credit resource.

Also scheduled to appear will be Josh Mellicker from DVCreators.net. Josh will show off the brand new “revolutionary, integrated application for encoding, uploading and publishing web video,” DV Kitchen.

FCS Guru Andrew Balis will show the ins and outs of multi-format timelines in Final Cut Pro, and what’s happening behind the scenes when you mix different formats together. Also, if time allows, show how to deal with SD anamorphic footage correctly.

Neil Smith and Aaron Peak of Hollywood DI, one of the leading Post Houses in Los Angeles, will show us and tell us all we need to know about everything we need to do before we deliver our movie to a post house for finishing.

Brad Wright, creator of DVDxDV and Veescope Live will debut his latest creation, Veescope Signals. Veescope Signals is a plug-in for Final Cut Pro that makes the job of color correcting, shot matching, and proofing your video easier than ever before. Veescope Signals displays the brightness, flesh tones, white points in the video in a series of specialized scopes that are overlaid directly on top of the image. Using these scopes a user can quickly identify the problem areas in the video and correct them.

The rest of the evening will consist of “Stump The Gurus,” Show and Tells, and of course, World Famous Raffle. A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery Theatre, visit the lafcpug website.