Adam and Tonya Engst have announced a 50%-off sale on all Take Control and Macworld Superguide ebooks now through April 29.

“To celebrate of the 18th anniversary of TidBITS, we’re offering a 50% discount on all Take Control and Macworld Superguide ebooks through next Tuesday, April 29th. To take advantage of the sale, use the link below to start shopping in our catalog; the necessary coupon code will be applied automatically in the first screen of the shopping cart. Note that you can select multiple books from the different tabs in the catalog’s tabbed interface before clicking the Buy Selected Ebooks button to add them to your cart. (Print books are not included in the sale.)”

New and recently updated titles you might especially want to check out include:

• Joe Kissell’s Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac
• Steve Sande’s Take Control of iWeb: iLife ‘08 Edition
• Ted Landau’s Take Control of Your iPhone
• Brian Tanaka’s Take Control of Permissions in Leopard
• Joe Kissell’s Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard
• Matt Neuburg’s Take Control of Customizing Leopard

Also be sure to check out the latest ebooks from Macworld:

• Macworld Mac OS X Hints Superguide, Leopard Edition
• Macworld Total Leopard Superguide

Although print versions of our books are not included in the sale, print copies ordered from within an existing ebook are still discounted at the cover price, not the price you pay during the sale. So, if you buy a copy of “Take Control of Switching to the Mac” for $5 during the sale, clicking the Print link at the top of the first page will still save you $10 off the normal print price. (For older ebooks that predate the Print link, just click the Check for Updates button and then click the Order Print Copy tab in the Web page that appears.)”

Peachpit will once again present the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, this time at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville on June 10 - 13, 2008, and MUG members can save money on attending or maybe even go for free.

You’ve read their books and now you’re ready for more! This not-to-be-missed conference brings you face to face with the experts whose books have shaped your career, like Jeremy Keith, author of Bulletproof Ajax; or Sandra Niehaus, author of Web Design for ROI; Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think; and Shari Thurow, author of Search Engine Visibility. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so check out the conference page for the full line up of speakers and workshops!

Mac User Group members who use the exclusive discount code WD2MAL5 will receive $200 off the core conference. An extra, Early Bird discount is available if you register before May 2.

Don’t want to pay the price? One of your members can win a full three-day conference pass to conference. MUG leaders may nominate a member from your group whose name will be submitted to the general raffle. Submit your nominee by Monday April, 21st, to usergroups@peachpit.com. The lucky winners will be announced on April 30th.
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The folks at Transcena Design are extending a special discount price to Mac User Group members on OfficeTime, their full-featured time tracking application.

Tracking time just became easier for Mac users converting to Leopard, OS X 10.5. OfficeTime’s latest release (version 1.3) now offers full Leopard compatibility with iCal synchronization for a visual display of your workday. iCal synchronization continues to be supported on Tiger and older versions of Mac OS X.

Until May 1, MUG members can take 15% off the regular price of OfficeTime, either individual or multi-license copies by using the special user group discount code.
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The March MUG Event Calendar hits stride with some great guests and interesting presentations around the globe.

Apple’s Dave Marra will strike not once, but twice, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, while Aaron Davis of Apple will present in Maryland. James Lee of Tropical Software will visit a group in Oregoon, while Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac will visit a California group. Anne Chase of DriveSavers will talk about their services in Pennsylvania while a representative of Mac hardware super-retailer Other World Computing will talk to a group in Wisconsin.

Not to be out-done by those groups with special guests, a United Kingdom group will focus on open source software, a Maryland group will talk about hard drives and your data, and a group in Denver will have a notebook program shoot-out. Automator is on the agenda in North Carolina, digital photography in Florida and gaming in Canada, to name a few.

You would like to see your group mentioned on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing. right? RIGHT? Right! So email the details to The MUG Center and we’ll make it happen.

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Our friends at Prosoft Engineering are offering a 25% discount on their entire product line to Mac User Group members.

Prosoft is dedicated to creating professional quality software designed to be easily used by both novice and expert users. Prosoft adopts the role of being data advocates, fighting to preserve data and prevent data loss.

Looking for presenters for your group? The Prosoft/JoeSoft team try to coordinate Mac User Group presentations whenever they can. E-mail them (jbell@prosofteng.com) regarding your event and tell them about your group, meeting schedule and/or upcoming events!

The current Prosoft product line includes:
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ActionBacks has special pricing for Mac User Group members.
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InfTek has special MUG discounts on their hosting service.
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3Dconnexion has special pricing on their products.
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H-Squared is offering MUG members a special discount on their products
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