March Meeting Review
March 2nd, 2010March 2, 2010
Yes it is true. The review is out the day after. Can you believe it? I told you once we got into the swing of things we would be on top of it just for you.
a big THANKS goes out to Keith Thomassen
for taking the time to inform us about Power Point. Apparently the allotted time was not enough to cover what he had planned — the basics sometimes are not as easy as one would believe them to be all as we found out; we will need to bring Keith back for another session sometime to advance us further into the program or he can do a session privately with members that want to take their Power Point skills to the next level.
His coverage was so indepth that I actually came home and created what he did — no not the presentation Power Point he showed us at the beginning, but the one he did from scratch, since it was so stuck in my head I wanted to see if I could replicate it and I did — of course as we found out afterward, in the Q & A period, there are varying degrees of skill and experience in our members that we try to address by answering questions, going slow but not to bore the others, and putting the demonstrations online for you to analyze.
Again, a big thanks to Keith for taking the time, bringing his NEW iMac with the WIDESCREEN view that we could not see do to the age of our projectors not having the proper ports, but in time we hope to be up to date, which leads me to mention what we have in store for the APRIL MEETING.
What is in store for April?
As it looks at this time you will be stuck with me going over some basic TIPS, TRICKS, and SHORT CUTS for the operating system and some applications (becoming a power user), discussing the longevity of pre 10.6 (snow leopard for those that speak that langauge) operating systems and their hardware counterparts (I have a G4 running 10.4.11 how long am I good for?), as well as, photograph storage and filing, and new apps, tools, and websites of interest.
Jim Heck and I are working on putting together a HANDS ON TRAINING session at the MAY meeting for those who want to bring their computers to follow along with it, the subject is creating a slideshow / movie project with iMovie (no need for photoshop and so forth). We will have pictures, video, and the project files available for everyone to be on the same page — just like a classroom feel. If interested or not, we need feedback, please drop us a message to smmug@sierramousetrap.org.
• Other SMMUG tools to help us help you •
- Needing a forum of sorts that works to ask questions or answer them then head on over to the NEW SMMUG GOOGLE GROUP
- We have a TWITTER Account to follow, but this may not be a needed thing as you can view the info with this newsletter and on our website, so it is still in the testing phase, let us know what you think.
happy MAC computing
gerald davenport





