AUGUST MEETING
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 of environment although I may look like I want to just give up I find something to keep me going and finish the task and finish with fireworks. Anyway, I do hope everyone has been safe, cool, and stayed creative with their Mac's.
Speaking of Apple; there have been some exciting new additions and updates to their line of products and software; take a visit to APPLE INC and see what has been happening.
Windows has been touting it's IE 7 with some strange and really stupid commercials — in my opinion — where people go into a bank and give their most secretive information just to get $500 to start a savings account? Come on. It's gonna cost them more than $500 to get me to tell them who broke my heart, what kind of underwear I wear, and my password for my bank account. Please… Microsoft, stop insinuating that we are stupid, unless that's the market you are looking for to buy your imperfect products?
I may be a Apple Fan Boy, geek, and a Mac head, but I am not a total dweeb about it — thinks about it; Anyway, I do have some issues with Apple;
- I have never understood why they do not have more USB ports, FireWire Ports, and other connections on ALL their macs — just make it standard like you did the airport card.
- Why they took away target mode.
- Why they made a laptop without accessability on it (macair)
- Why they made a smaller version of the MacAir and called it iPad and lets limit its use to certain things. (no, not an ipad fan)
- Why they took away laptop batteries for one built in that has never been tested to give the results they claim especially since the batteries they had before never gave the results they claimed. So your telling me they got this figured out without testing it in real world use? I don't buy, don't get it, and do not agree with it.
- Why they cannot make a laptop or computer, all in one complete with everything you can get a dell for the price of $499? I mean, those guys are just laughing at us for spending too much money. Hey I know we got the best and they have to buy more, but it's the idiots that they are selling to, the financially challenged, the first timers or the returning windows customers. Can't Apple lower their prices a bit.
So as you can tell, I am not 100% sold on Apple, maybe 99.25%, but like with anything, we deal with it, we live with it, we get accustomed to it, but it sure beats dealing with the dark side.
August 2nd topics
• Matt will show us some neat tricks about browsers and website information downloading and saving — if I am correct; anyway, it is well worth the time to come and listen — Matt's demo of "1Password" was awesome last month and I am sure this will be no different.
• I will try and showcase some of the popular calendar apps, such as, iCal, Gmail-Calendar, Entourage, Hotmail, Yahoo, PreMinder, and others to remind you of important dates (we did have a question about Now-Up-to-Date to iCal and I found some interesting sites that help you do that)
• I will also cover an interesting topic about Identifying loss in available hard-drive space that Jim Heck brought to my attention; this would be a great topic for Rick Hartmann; but he is one busy person; hmmm, where have I seen that before?
• If anyone else has a topic, demo, or interesting tid bit they would like to, and are ready to, share then please let me know. The more you all participate, the purpose of this group comes to life.
September 6th topics
• iPad demo by Matt?
• Questions and Answers
• I have a little test to give to everyone.
• If anyone else has a topic, demo, or interesting tid bit they would like to, and are ready to, share then please let me know. The more you all participate, the purpose of this group comes to life.
Don't forget: MONDAY, AUGUST 2ndt, 2010, 7pm: LIBRARY: http://www.sierramousetrap.org/?page_id=4