SVMUG March 17, 2008

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Introduction - Host: Charles Gousha

St. Patrick’s Day!

New People: — one person, not a Mac user, here just to see what it is about. — another came from Monte Vista High School.

News and Events

— CompUSA branded stuff is at Micro Center, at 50% off. Mostly CDR and DVD-R, cables, and such. A separate room in the far left corner of the store is devoted to Mac gear and books.

— Apple Airport Express with 802.11n is now available.

— HP printers on wireless networks seem to be problematic for some users, though two members spoke up to say it works perfectly.

SVMUG - February 18, 2008

Tonight! Drobo Storage Robot!

Introduction — Host: Charles Gousha

Rumors are about that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac has “production” problems, that is the actual product media can not be processed fast enough. Perhaps disk serialization - DRM problems? Underestimated demand. People who are using it are saying it is a good product — works well. It does have a completely different UI on the Mac compared to the PC, and the Mac UI is said to be much better.

Is Office 2008 better than 2004? No worst, says the user.

At MacWorld Expo, there was an arrest of a person who set up a malicious forgery of the official WiFi network. It was a peer-to-peer.

SVMUG - January 21, 2008

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Martin Luther King Day

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Introduction

Charles Gousha is the moderator

— New people — — Kevin of Filemaker — — Stephen Keys, former Apple employee — — Gary, former A32 member from 15 years ago, now retired and back to Mac — — Randy, policeman, former Apple employee, replacing PC with Macs at the PD — — Justen — — Dale, here with Tropical Software — — Jim, from Tropical Software, here to give the presentation

News and Events

— MacWorld Expo news and comments

I attended one meeting at the Apple Campus. I really enjoyed your group. When I finally found the website to look up when you meet next, it took me a very long time to find that the next meeting is scheduled for January 21st, Martin Luther King Day. I’ll be there, but I thought someone might want to still put that up there. Gonna try to go to MacWorld tomorrow… I know it’ll be tough, but tomorrow is probably the bets day for me to go.

See ya the 21st, Lars Mac Book Pro, G4, BWG3, and a bunch of other Macs at home….

Hello to everybody from Italy! Next friday i’ll flight for about 16 hrs to reach SF, could anybody halp me to manage a trip to Cupertino, I would love to see the Company Store but it seems that there is no functional connection, just a 3hrs trip with 3 busses .

many many thanks to everybody… a beer to anyone will help me

Alessandro

SVMUG December 17, 2007

Introductions

— new Mac commercials played — to not much acclaim.

Welcome to our annual potluck

Karelia software will not be present, but are raffling two copies of their “Sandvox” program to the group. Sandvox: easy, elegant website creation.

Tonight we will focus on our party and group discussion of your computer activity.

Joy Cohn will demonstrate the operation of Canvas X - a long time graphics creation program.

First timers? none tonight.

Please use the question forms to submit questions for the Q&A later tonight.

News and Events

— What about the Mac Geek Cruise - MacMania 7 - Lynda Fudold will discuss.

Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group: Nov 2007 meeting

We will be showing Leopard: Nick Brazzi, from the Palo Alto Apple store.

Introducing new members. We have a couple.

We hope to have Jim Heid do a video iCHat here, and in-person at a later meeting.

We are doing regular Q&A. Also vendor Q&A and we will pick the forms and hand it to the vendor.

And we will then finish up and wrap up.

Dave Strom is taking notes.

Introduction of volunteers; talk to us if you want to do so.

NEWS AND RUMORS

Leopard is now out. A guy was 5th in line; the gal bedside him had her MacBook out and the net went out (power was gone), emergency lighting and remote credit card terminals still worked. Another was 200th in line at Emeryville. He left at about 6:45; they still had about 50 t-shirts left. Time machine (as of then) did not work over Airport Extreme. It was a mob; a lot lined up at the checkout counter. He feels he has 6 or 7 clients who should have it. Another at Valley Fair; the line there was pleasant. There is a We Fix Macs at Valley Fair, and they also handed out t-shirts. There seemed to be Mac entrepenuers working the crowds. (Gamers, repairs, etc.) We Fix Macs near Macys at Valley Fair (well, there when one of us saw it). If you want warrenty work, maybe an Apple store would be better.

SVMUG Meeting - October 15, 2007

Moderator: Charles Gousha

New People

-- Francis - moved to Silicon Valley in June - joining the group now - found us in the Apple user group listings.

-- Vinny - just checking us out - see what is up.

News and Events

iMac freeze problem - Apple acknowledges the problem and will resolve it before the end of this month. Apparently 10.4.10 is a problem for G5 iMacs. The ATI graphic drivers may be at fault.

Leopard is expected to ship in October. However, no definite word yet. Some rumors said the GM candidate is ready. Other rumors say to expect it on Friday, October 26.

SVMUG -- September 17, 2007

Introduction -- Charles Gousha

New People

-- been on the mailing list, came for the first time, mostly a Unix-Solaris person
-- just moved from SF, long time BMUG member

News and Events

1. iPod event -- revamped the entire product line.
The original iPod is now the iPod classic, with 160 GB.
The iPod Touch is essentially an iPhone
without a phone, Bluetooth, speaker or microphone.
It is basically an iPod with a WiFi web browser.
The iPod nano is now a video player.

2. iPhone price is dropped by $200 -- original purchasers have been given an in-store credit of $100.00. The 8 GB iPhone is now $400.00. Note: purchasers in the last two weeks have price protection, that will refund the $200 difference.

SVMUG August 20, 2007

Introductions
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Host: Charles Gousha

Old TV commercial for the Datsun (Nissan) 280z features Steve Wozniak. It aired between 1978 and 1980.

New people:
Griffin de Luce -- Second Life mac user group

Remember to use the WiFi connection (42net) to join in the collaborative meeting notes, to be posted to the SVMUG web site.

News and Events
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-- New iMacs
aluminum and glass construction,
FW800 ports,
somewhat faster.
20 inch and 24 inch
Both wired and bluetooth keyboars, also in aluminum, super thin!