Archive for the 'Software' Category

August 24, 2010 NEWS

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

NEXT MEETING: Monday, September 13 Yes we changed it and it was posted on the website http://www.sierramousetrap.org/ awhile back, but I know most have busy lives and sometimes forget to check on things they know they should — I know, I am that way at times; you put it off, you put it off, and then, [...]

In search of topics

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

I am in search of topics, discussions, and demo’s that you would like to see covered. Oh, I’m not out of material, I just am tired of covering what I think you might want covered — and I do get tired of hearing myself talk about what I think is cool and important, which I [...]

Excel file for meeting.

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Download and follow along with Keith Monday August 2nd…P G & E Excel File

AUGUST MEETING

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Summer time heat and fun Greetings everyone; hope all is going well for you this July of 2010; it has been a hot one and for me, as I am sure for others, it has been very busy — at times it almost feels like I cannot breath — but I excel in that type [...]

iMovie tutorial Revisit

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Jim Heck has done a great little PDF tutorial. iMove Slide Show Demo rev6 and review the steps to make a great movie slide show.

June 14th Meeting

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Mac Meeting iMovie Tutorial As I’ve mentioned before Jim Heck did a great job on the iMovie tutorial: instigating it, putting it together, and executing it — it was no easy task. We will do a review — as quickly as we can — and cover questions, which there are plenty of; seems we had [...]

iMovie tutorial (May 3rd)

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Well, it has been an adventure trying to get the tutorial put together: I do not have iMovie installed on any of my Mac’s (4) — reason to be explained later — Jim has been busy working on his end of the tutorial along with his daily activities — busy man, but I finally got [...]

Rick’s Demo Details

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Those of you interested in stuff Rick mentioned in his demo: rEFIt: Allows you to boot into multiple systems and access certain utilities. Kill-a-Watt: Plug it into the wall, then plug an appliance into it, and it monitors power usage so you can see the cost of running that appliance. One unit acts as a [...]

Followup on October Meeting

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

At the October meeting (last night, as I write this) we discussed memory and CPU usage, and the value of more RAM. This article, that I stumbled across this morning, seems like a great little demo of what we were talking about. Also, here are links to some of the other sites we talked about: [...]

Web Reference Materials for May 31st Meeting: Alternatives to MS Office

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Some alternatives for Microsoft Office: Free Desktop & Web-based Office Suites OpenOffice Complete desktop office suite runs in X-Windows on Mac and on other platforms