Welcome to Mac2MUG!
MAC2MUG is for people who want to learn from and interact with other Macintosh computer users. We welcome visitors at our monthly meeting and hope that you will become a member. Meetings last for approximately two hours and are generally held the first Tuesday of the month.
Our May 7th, 2013 meeting will feature: Mac Moviemaking
(presented by Al Risaliti)
- How to use your Mac to create videos of your own
- Lights! Camera! Action! Macintosh! If you have forever wanted to make your own motion pictures, Tuesday’s meeting is for you. Whether or not your masterpiece leads to your brushing shoulders with Julia Roberts and George Clooney at the Academy Awards, the journey is bound to be an adventure. Al will show some good ideas for videos, give tips on honing your acting skills, explain how to import video into the Mac, and demonstrate some multi-track video and audio editing techniques. Armed with barely more than a director’s chair and a Mac, in no time you too can hear your overwrought leading lady purr, “Alright Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Even if you have not yet cast the hero, plotted that perfect chase scene or booked the helicopters, please do at least come gaze with us at the silver screen, i.e., the big white wall in our meeting room. And please do send our regards to Julia and George.
- (See the May 2013 meeting-announcement here)
- Writing and creative image credits for our meeting notices goes to Mac2MUG Secretary and Creative Genius - Rob Ellis. If you had fun reading, then you are really in for a treat when you attend our meetings and hear his presentations!
- See previous Mac2 Macintosh Users Group meeting notices on our Meeting Recaps page.
Our April 2nd, 2013 meeting featured: Mac and Cheese
(presented by Tom Davis)
- Recipe management on the Mac
- What’s cooking? Be it cheeseburgers or duck à l’orange, can your Macintosh help to make it even better? Absolutely. Combining his favorite hobby, food, with his passion for Macs, Tom showed how you can use your Mac, and even an iPad, to enrich your own cooking. With your favorite recipes at your fingertips, plus the ability to find many more, organize them, edit the numbers of servings, and save everything for easy access, you may find yourself on the road to culinary nirvana. Even if you are not a foodie, what we learned can help you use your Mac for other hobbies.
- (See the April 2013 meeting-announcement here)
- Writing and creative image credits for our meeting notices goes to Mac2MUG Secretary and Creative Genius - Rob Ellis. If you had fun reading, then you are really in for a treat when you attend our meetings and hear his presentations!
- See previous Mac2 Macintosh Users Group meeting notices on our Meeting Recaps page.
Our March 5th, 2013 meeting featured: Drag and Drop
(presented by Rob Ellis)
- Powerful tips and techniques for the Mac, all utilizing dragging and dropping
- Your Macintosh allows many ways to perform tasks, and some of the most powerful ones can be accomplished with simple drag and drop techniques. The catch is that not all of these actions are obvious or intuitive; many of them lie waiting at your fingertips, unused. Rob demonstrated a wide variety of drag and drop maneuvers, in the Finder, in applications, and between apps, including hidden and little-known tricks which can produce surprising results while saving time. Using your Mac can be a drag, but in the best possible ways.
- (See the March 2013 meeting-announcement here)
- Writing and creative image credits for our meeting notices goes to Mac2MUG Secretary and Creative Genius - Rob Ellis. If you had fun reading, then you are really in for a treat when you attend our meetings and hear his presentations!
- See previous Mac2 Macintosh Users Group meeting notices on our Meeting Recaps page.
Our February 5th, 2013 meeting featured: Apple Buyer’s Guide
(presented by Rob Ellis)
- Advice for choosing your perfect Mac, iPad, iPod or iPhone, and when and where to buy it!
- Money cannot buy love, but you can easily fall in love with Apple gear that happens to be perfect for you, particularly if it costs far less than expected. Choosing it, however, is another matter. On Tuesday, Rob guided us through Apple’s entire hardware lineup of Macs and mobile devices, with personalized advice for what to buy, when to buy it, and where to buy it for considerably less money. Searching for a gem can be time-consuming, but if you follow your heart, and our advice, your search may become a labor of love, without the labor. And the gem you choose may be the perfect Valentine to yourself.
- (See the February 2013 meeting-announcement here)
- Writing and creative image credits for our meeting notices goes to Mac2MUG Secretary and Creative Genius - Rob Ellis. If you had fun reading, then you are really in for a treat when you attend our meetings and hear his presentations!
- See previous Mac2 Macintosh Users Group meeting notices on our Meeting Recaps page.
Our January 8th, 2013 meeting featured: Office Suites for the Mac - OpenOffice and NeoOffice
(presented by Tom Davis)
- A look at two alternatives to Microsoft Office, and both just happen to be either low-cost or free!
- Microsoft Office provides a rich, powerful set of tools, as does Apple’s own iWork suite. But if you would like to try other suites, or if you do not own Office but would like to work with documents from those who do, or if you would simply like a little more money left in your wallet, there are alternatives. OpenOffice and NeoOffice both provide applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and both allow you to open, work with and save Microsoft Office documents. On Tuesday, Tom showed the advantages and disadvantages of these apps, plus took a look at options for the iPad. OpenOffice is free, and NeoOffice costs ten dollars for current versions, with previous versions being free. All in all, a pretty suite deal.
- (See the January 2013 meeting-announcement here)
- Writing and creative image credits for our meeting notices goes to Mac2MUG Secretary and Creative Genius - Rob Ellis. If you had fun reading, then you are really in for a treat when you attend our meetings and hear his presentations!
- See previous Mac2 Macintosh Users Group meeting notices on our Meeting Recaps page.