The MUG Event Calendar for April 7: Andy Ihnatko, Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus, Chuck Joiner, Ben Waldie, MacSpeech, Bento, iMovie ’08 and More
The MUG Event Calendar has a long list of special guest presenters and informative topics this week.
Andy Ihnatko will make his annual visit to a Colorado group, Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will help a California group celebrate their sixth anniversary, Bob Pudell of Apple will partner with a local Apple reseller to present in Illinois and Andrew Taylor of MacSpeech will present to a New York group, one of two MacSpeech appearances in New York this week. Scripting expert Ben Waldie will be the featured presenter in New Jersey and Chuck Joiner of MacVoices and MacNotables will discuss podcasting with a Texas group.
Other hot topics on Mac User Group agendas this week include FileMaker’s Bento, iMovie ’08, genealogy, hard drives, Leopard, and much more.
If your group has something special going on, you want the world to know, right? There’s no better way than to have your meeting listed on The MUG Event Calendar and in our weekly Briefing. Email the details of your next meeting to The MUG Center.
The week’s complete listings include:
| Monday | 7-Apr | Danbury Area Computer Society – Secure Computing in the Internet Age |
| Gold Coast Macintosh User Group (Australia) – Mac Essentials, MacBook Air up close, Screen Sharing with Sam, Leopard extras, which Mac for you | ||
| Virginia Macintosh Users Group – Macbook Air and Time Capsule | ||
| Sydney Macintosh Users Group (Australia) – Bento – the new personal database for Leopard; also Apple Remote Control and ‘Back to My Mac’ demo | ||
| Ottawa InDesign User Group (Canada) – Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign CS3 by Adobe Systems Canada | ||
| Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh Users Group – Shawne Benson of The Apple Store shows off iLife ’08 | ||
| Wellington Macintosh Society (New Zealand) – TBA | ||
| Tuesday | 8-Apr | Nashville Apple Pro Video Group – Seeing RED in April |
| Maryland Apple Corps – Everything you want to know about Servers for the Home and Business | ||
| Charlotte Apple Computer Club – What’s "Under the Hood" in OS X | ||
| Sarasota/Manatee Macintosh User Group – TBA | ||
| Lakeland Macintosh Users Group – iWork ’08: Pages, Keynote and Numbers | ||
| Oxford Macintosh Users Group (United Kingdom) – iMovie | ||
| Corvallis Macintosh User Group – External hard drives: cloning and partitioning, software for auto back-ups including Time Machine, Chronosync, and SuperDuper. Also paint/drawing programs: three ways to bring the artist out in you for less than $25 bucks. | ||
| Detroit InDesign User Group Meeting – XML for Designers | ||
| Dallas InDesign User Group – Preflight, Print & PDF | ||
| South Mississippi Mac Users Group – Roxio Toast 8 | ||
| Glasgow Macintosh Users Group – Annual General Meeting | ||
| Macintech – Bento | ||
| Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group – Genealogy software and research, recycling computer equipment | ||
| Davis Macintosh Users Group – TBA | ||
| Cowtown Macintosh Users Group – “Troubleshooting Leopard, Tips and Techniques†| ||
| Wednesday | 9-Apr | Bellarine Mac User Group (Australia) – Making the most of the Internet, Featuring…Safari, Web Surfing, Google, Online Banking, Widgets etc. |
| Victoria Macintosh Users Group (Canada) – iMovie ’08 | ||
| Apple CIDER – TBA | ||
| Club Mac (Australia) – Office 2008 | ||
| Whatcom Macintosh Users Group – "Overview of Leopard’s Font Mangement" | ||
| dBug – Bento by FileMaker | ||
| Hershey Apple Core – iMovie ’08, Elgato Turbo.264 and More | ||
| Serious Macintosh Users Group – New Products | ||
| Sydney InDesign User Group (Australia) – Making Your Work Flow | ||
| South West Florida Apple Computer Knowledgeable Society – Photography and photo editing with popular software | ||
| North Florida Macintosh Users Group – "Getting Things Done" | ||
| Thursday | 10-Apr | East Bay Macintosh Users Group – Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and 6th Anniversary Celebration |
| Colorado Macintosh Users Group – Andy Ihnatko of The Chicago Sun-Times and MacNotables | ||
| Capitol Macintosh – Chuck Joiner of MacVoices, MacNotables and The MUG Center | ||
| MetroMac – MacSpeech | ||
| Lockheed Martin Macintosh User Group – Enjoy Your Computer More Using the New MacOS X 10.5, Part 2 | ||
| Tidewater Macintosh Users Group – General Meeting – Open Forum | ||
| Macintosh Asheville Computer Society – Adobe Illustrator CS 3 | ||
| Rhode Island Macintosh Users Group – Bento from FileMaker | ||
| MacPeople – TBA | ||
| New York FileMaker Developers Group – TBA | ||
| Cambria Computer Club – TBA | ||
| Friday | 11-Apr | Long Island Macintosh Users Group – Andrew Taylor of MacSpeech presents Dictate |
| Atlantic City Macintosh Users Group – iPhoto 7 & Aperture 2.1 with John Doherty of the Atlantic City Apple Store | ||
| Club Mac of Monterey – TBA | ||
| Saturday | 12-Apr | Macintosh Association of Central New Jersey – Ben Waldie will discuss Automator and AppleScript. |
| NorthWest of Us – Bob Pudell of Apple and Josh Davis of the Apple Boutique on Apple Hardware and Software | ||
| Apple Corps of Dallas – TBA | ||
| Mac-In-Awe Macintosh Users Group – Different resources you can use to find help when you need it | ||
| The Mac Group Dayton – Genealogy on the Mac | ||
| Redding Macintosh Users Group – TBA | ||
| Main Line Macintosh Users Group – MaxMenus | ||
| Sunday | 13-Apr | NorthWest Apple Pickers – TBA |