SVMUG Meeting Notes 2008 July 21

Welcome

People New: 1 Found from the web. Volunteers Attendees can volunteer too!

News

iPhone 3G One attendee has it. Issues with Voicemail. Issues with AT&T culture.

“Twice as fast. Half the price.” - AT&T monthly fees went up.

Charles claims iPhone 3G can be got with older 2.5G dataplan.

New 3G dataplans don’t include 200 SMS messages anymore. 200 SMS is now $5.

Disappointment with customers having to wait in line for iPhone 3G at Apple Stores.

Disassembles claim new phone is cheaper to make than old one. iPhone OS 2.0 Reactivation Woes on Friday of Launch coinciding with iPhone 3G initial sales.

iPod Touch doesn’t come with new 2.0 software. $10 upgrade required to update. MobileMe MobileMe Woes. Attendee was told MobileMe team is very small by support staff.

Calendars on iPhone/iPod touch don’t sync colors with MobileMe.

Family accounts don’t sync calendars across accounts.

Bye bye iCards.

Old iCal can’t subscribe to MobileMe published calendars.

Difficult to renew accounts currently. App Store For iPhone OS 2.0.

Early in the US for some because started at dateline for eastern countries. Steve Jobs’ Health Conference Call claimed it’s a private matter.

Associated Press misreported claiming Steve Jobs wasn’t on the conference call, but in reality is always never in conference call. This misrepresentation may have led to AAPL drop. Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) Will it run on PPC? Attendees don’t think so. Apple has no comment on future product announcements. Runner of MacRumors now a Doctor Selling medicine? Psystar (sp) finally Sued by Apple Finally. Anti-compete clauses in job contracts Can’t usually be enforced in CA.

Main Presentation: Prosoft

Been two years since previous presentation.

Drive Setup licensed to Apple from Prosoft.

From Pleasanton. 303 Ray St. Pleasanton CA. 877-477-6763

Since 1985. Started as engineering services company doing contract work. Device drivers. Advantages • Award Winning Products • Superior Free Tech Support • Lower Cost of Ownership • Great Service

Data Rescue 2 Emergency Hard Drive Recovery

Apple IT uses internally.

$99.

Does not write to hard drive. Just to get data off it.

Assistant and Expert mode.

Supports FAT. Not sure about NTFS.

Drive Genius 2 Maintain, Manage, and Optimize your Hard Drive

Used by Apple with Pro Care for defragmentation.

• Defragment
• Repartition
• Directory Repair
• Duplicate/Backup
• Sector Edit
• Shred
• Integrity Check
• Benchtest
• Scan

Pretty User Interface. Data Backup 3 Fast, Easy, and Flexible Backup

• Easy
• Powerful
• Flexible
• Basic Operations
• Advanced Operations
• Options

Sales increased with Time Machine in Leopard probably due to increased awareness.

JoeSoft … Hear

Break

Raffle

Raffle from Vendor

Sparky

September potluck for Charles and Lynda.

Q&A

Wrapup