SVMUG

NOTE: *MEETING DATE FOR JANUARY 2009 CHANGED to Jan 12th. Slife Labs is in town!*

PRESENTATION: Slife Labs is a privately owned company that develops productivity and communication tools for individuals and businesses. The products, Slife and Slife Teams, explore new ways to help people and organizations collect, visualize, understand and share their digital activities as a means for time tracking, productivity management and workgroup communications. In this talk, founder and product manager, Edison Thomaz, will go over the recently released Slife Platform 2.0, which includes the Slife client and the Slife Teams web service. Slife is a time and activity analytics application that automatically keeps track of where users spend time in the computer. It’s used by thousands of designers, programmers, writers, managers and many others. Slife Teams is a new software-as-a-service from Slife Labs that can be described as “Google Analytics” for the office. It is designed to offer businesses detailed analytics into the activities of their teams and workgroups while fully protecting the privacy of employees.

For more information:
http://www.slifelabs.com

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

FEBRUARY 16, 2009 - TBD
We are looking for ideas for future presentations. Who would you like to see?

NOTE: *MEETING DATE FOR JANUARY 2009 CHANGED to Jan 12th. Slife Labs is in town!*

PRESENTATION: Slife Labs is a privately owned company that develops productivity and communication tools for individuals and businesses. The products, Slife and Slife Teams, explore new ways to help people and organizations collect, visualize, understand and share their digital activities as a means for time tracking, productivity management and workgroup communications. In this talk, founder and product manager, Edison Thomaz, will go over the recently released Slife Platform 2.0, which includes the Slife client and the Slife Teams web service. Slife is a time and activity analytics application that automatically keeps track of where users spend time in the computer. It’s used by thousands of designers, programmers, writers, managers and many others. Slife Teams is a new software-as-a-service from Slife Labs that can be described as “Google Analytics” for the office. It is designed to offer businesses detailed analytics into the activities of their teams and workgroups while fully protecting the privacy of employees.

For more information:
http://www.slifelabs.com

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

FEBRUARY 16, 2009 - TBD
We are looking for ideas for future presentations. Who would you like to see?

NOTE: *MEETING DATE FOR JANUARY 2009 CHANGED to Jan 12th. Slife Labs is in town!*

PRESENTATION: Slife Labs is a privately owned company that develops productivity and communication tools for individuals and businesses. The products, Slife and Slife Teams, explore new ways to help people and organizations collect, visualize, understand and share their digital activities as a means for time tracking, productivity management and workgroup communications. In this talk, founder and product manager, Edison Thomaz, will go over the recently released Slife Platform 2.0, which includes the Slife client and the Slife Teams web service. Slife is a time and activity analytics application that automatically keeps track of where users spend time in the computer. It’s used by thousands of designers, programmers, writers, managers and many others. Slife Teams is a new software-as-a-service from Slife Labs that can be described as “Google Analytics” for the office. It is designed to offer businesses detailed analytics into the activities of their teams and workgroups while fully protecting the privacy of employees.

For more information:
http://www.slifelabs.com

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

FEBRUARY 16, 2009 - TBD
We are looking for ideas for future presentations. Who would you like to see?

HOLIDAY POTLUCK! Please bring a dish to share & join the fun!
PRESENTATION: Smith Micro will demo Spring Cleaning 10, a comprehensive maintenance utility that allows you to find and organize clutter so your Mac can operate trouble free!

For more information:
http://www.smithmicro.com
http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/21/spring.cleaning.10/
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/springcleaning/index.html

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

NOTE: *MEETING DATE FOR JANUARY 2009 CHANGED to Jan 12th!* The meeting will be one week earlier than usual. Please make a note of this change! It will be held on the second Monday of the month instead of our usual third Monday of the month. Same place, same time. Why? We have a vendor from back east who is available to present to us while they are in California for the Mac World Expo.

JANUARY 12, 2009 - Slife Labs
Slife Labs is a privately owned company that develops productivity and communication tools for individuals and businesses. The products, Slife and Slife Teams, explore new ways to help people and organizations collect, visualize, understand and share their digital activities as a means for time tracking, productivity management and workgroup communications.

http://www.slifelabs.com

TechTool Pro is a complete Macintosh repair shop in a box. In fact, it’s so good that Apple includes a copy of its sibling, TechTool Deluxe, in its AppleCare Protection Plan. If you have ever experienced a system bomb, freeze, crash, or indecipherable error code, TechTool Pro can help you get your computer running smoothly again. It is a comprehensive diagnostic, repair, and maintenance utility.

http://www.micromat.com/

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

DEC 15th - svmug POTLUCK & Spring Cleaning 10 - a comprehensive maintenance utility
For more information, see:

http://www.smithmicro.com

http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/21/spring.cleaning.10/

HOLIDAY POTLUCK! Please bring a meal to share! Bring your own serving utensils too.

NOTE: AquaMinds Software was not able to make our October 2008 meeting. We’ll reschedule their presentation of NoteTaker and NoteShare soon and post it here.

In Sept, we learned about Note Taking, Part 1 by EverNote. This month, we continue our noteworthy education with AquaMinds Software and their products: NoteTaker and NoteShare. Macs are great for graphics and multimedia, but TextEdit is not meant to be a notes program. Stickies, even less so! Enter: NoteTaker! We’ll take a look at a dramatic way to keep track of all those fiddly little bits of information that it takes to manage your life. Sharing and collaboration are the central productivity themes of their technology, so if time permits, we will also see demos of NoteShare and NoteShare Server too.
http://www.aquaminds.com/

For a quick overview of what they do, take a look at these two videos:

   http://aquaminds2.com/organized_student-2.mov

   http://aquaminds2.com/Web_Agents.mov

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

* FUTURE MEETINGS * (subject to change)

NOV 17th - Tech Tool Pro - Diagnose, Fix, and Prevent Problems

TechTool Pro is a complete Macintosh repair shop in a box. In fact, it’s so good that Apple includes a copy of its sibling, TechTool Deluxe, in its AppleCare Protection Plan. If you have ever experienced a system bomb, freeze, crash, or indecipherable error code, TechTool Pro can help you get your computer running smoothly again. It is a comprehensive diagnostic, repair, and maintenance utility.
http://www.micromat.com/

DEC 15th - POTLUCK and Spring Cleaning 10 - a comprehensive maintenance utility
For more information, see:

   http://www.smithmicro.com  

   http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/21/spring.cleaning.10/

ALSO…our annual svmug HOLIDAY POTLUCK! Please bring a dish to share.

 

Please join us for a special Potluck gathering to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Charles (our fearless leader) and Lynda (our fearless leaderette)!

The main meeting will end earlier than usual so we can enjoy a variety of wonderful meals provided by you! If you are planning on attending, please sign up and bring a dish to share. If you've already signed up at the August meeting, thank you!

Members will receive an email soon with more information including how to update their existing sign-up info.

Non-members and guests who would like to participate can contact us for details.

If you can't be there in person, but you'd like to contribute to this celebratory event, please let us know. We'll find a way to include you from afar. Questions? Contact Pam at pam @ svmug.org (remove the spaces) or Sparky at 408-921-2001.

Sep 15 - Note Taking, Part 1: EverNote

Evernote offers you a way to keep track of notes and documents from anywhere with Internet access, via “the cloud”. Come see how one note set can be accessed from home, work, phone, or anywhere else. http://www.evernote.com

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

* Coming in FUTURE meetings * (subject to change)

Oct 20 - Note Taking, Part 2: NoteTaker

Macs are great for graphics and multimedia, but TextEdit is not meant to be a notes program. Stickies, even less so! Enter: NoteTaker! We’ll take a look at a dramatic way to keep track of all those fiddly little bits of information that it takes to manage your life. Sharing and collaboration are the central productivity themes of their technology. http://www.aquaminds.com/

Derrick’s topic will be “Five Ways to Make Your Photographs Better Than Others”. He is an excellent speaker and if we’re lucky, he’ll bring some of his newer books along. Come see what tips and tricks he has for us! Derrick Story is the digital media evangelist for O’Reilly. He has over 20 years of experience as a photojournalist, managing editor for O’Reilly Network, and a speaker for IDG, PMA, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and his latest, The Digital Photography Companion (which fits great in a camera bag). He coauthored iPhoto: The Missing Manual with David Pogue. You can listen to his photo podcasts and read his tips at his site: The Digital Story (http://www.thedigitalstory.com)

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting starts 7:00 PM
Room Name & Location: Garage conference room on the 2nd floor, Building 4

Apple, Inc.
4 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014