 |  | July 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson The last announcement from the WWDC keynote was that MobileMe is going
away. In its place will be a new service called iCloud. With any change
there are bound to be plus’ and minuses. Our July meeting covered what
was cool and what was missing, I.E. features that used to be part of
MobileMe, with the new service. Read the complete article.  |
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| | June 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson All of our attention turned to the recently completed World Wide
Developers Conference. It is there that Apple debuts its upcoming tech
agenda for the next year. It also serves to signal its broader
intentions for the next few years. Read the complete article. |
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| | May 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson Our May meeting had an overall theme, how do you prepare for a data
loss? It was prompted by a recent Amazon service outage that lasted for
days. A lot of popular advertising messages hawk "The Cloud" as a
solution to our data management issues. This outage leads to a
reassessment of that idea. Even big companies with complex redundancy
schemes can have things go horribly wrong. How are we as individuals
supposed to cope?Read the complete article. |
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| | April 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson One of my personal favorite topics to talk about is the Mac /iOS Gems
session. It is so very participatory. I always learn about new apps, and
I notice the same holds true for most of our attendees. What also
surprises me is the quality of these programs even though they may be
low cost or free. Read the complete article. |
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| | March 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson There were three topics that sparked a lot of discussion at our March
meeting. They were; MacOS X Lion, aka 10.7, MacBook Pro updates, and the
iPad 2. Read the complete article. |
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| | February 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson A Tale of Two Trade Shows Part II
After the Christmas buying season frenzy has worn down most of the
country gets back to everyday affairs. But for the gadget geek in the
family the New Year brings in two big electronics trade shows. One is
geared to industry insiders and professionals, CES, the other to
consumers, MacWorld Expo. The difference in focus, and audience ensures
that the shows are very different affairs. Read the complete article. |
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| | January 2011 Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson A Tale of Two Trade Shows
After the Christmas buying season frenzy has worn down most of the
country gets back to everyday affairs. But for the gadget geek in the
family the New Year brings in two big electronics trade shows. One is
geared to industry insiders and professionals, CES, the other to
consumers, MacWorld Expo. The difference in focus, and audience ensures
that the shows are very different affairs. Read the complete article. |
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 | | December Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson Apple gave us an early Christmas present in the form of an iLife update.
The group received our review copy of iLife 11 in time for the December
meeting. Read the complete article. |
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| | November Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson November's meeting, for me, is always an especially fun one. Its devoted
to gifts and gadgets for the geek. I was personally quite miffed that
this year my favorite sources for gift ideas had some pretty mundane
ideas. Duane and I managed to put together a pretty decent list of gift
ideas. Read the complete article. |
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| | October Meeting Hilights
By Monte Ferguson Our October meeting's topic, Analog to Digital audio conversion, grew
out of a discussion at a previous meeting. Our main presenter was our
own Monte Ferguson, with lots of good insights from Duane Weller. Read the complete article. |
