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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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

Our demo last month was by Gary Moon showing some great color correction tricks in Photoshop. Gary mentioned the DVDs of Lewis Kemper. Here’s the info, in case you missed it: Lewis Kemper www.lewiskemper.com (link to the DVDs is easy to find in the list on the left side of the home page “Photoshop Training [...]

Here’s one backup technique: Click here I actually like Carbon Copy Cloner, which is free. We discussed this during a troubleshooting session… I recommended getting a large hard drive (at least 3x your drive size). I’ve managed to get good prices on Western Digital drives from Fry’s and other sources. I should mention that several [...]