Previous Meetings
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June 08
The June TMUG meeting will return to our new meeting place at the Hope Community Church in Raleigh. The first order of business will be to hold the elections for officers that was deferred in March. Any member who is interested in participating on the executive committee is encouraged to contact any current officer or the Executive Committee list. The 5 officer positions are President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, Secretary, & Treasurer, as specified in TMUG's bylaws.
The June program will be one of our "Sit & Share" get togethers. We will divide into small ad hoc groups & discus various topics of interest to those present. The topics are your choosing. They may be relevant to recent discussions on the TMUG email list. Or they may be something brand new. Make a suggestion to the TMUG-list before Monday, or bring your idea with you. Also, TMUG member & Macintosh consultant Charles Mangin will introduce his latest creation – Marvin, the paranoid Frankintosh. Marvin is a "G4 Mac Plus" running OS X Tiger.
Charles Mangin will take a turn moderating the Q&A session this month. Bring your burning questions on any Apple or Mac topic, & Charles will help glean an answer. Our usual door prize drawings for TMUG members will be held as usual. The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm on June 9. Remember, TMUG is the undisputed leading Mac User Group in the Triangle... & beyond! See you there!
TMUG meetings are free and open to the public. For more info, please go to about TMUG.
(Attendance at the June meeting was 30 members & 4 visitors, 2 of whom joined.)
May 08
Now that TMUG has found a new home, it's time to form a new executive committee. At the next monthly meeting on May 12, we want to move forward with nominations so that the membership can vote at the June meeting. As always, we're looking for TMUG members to get involved and help push and pull the group into the future. If you'd like to volunteer for a executive committee post, we will welcome your participation. The ad hoc Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations to the slate of 5 officers: President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, Secretary, & Treasurer. Check TMUG's bylaws to read about the officers' duties & the election process.
For the May program, we're giving the floor back to out-going President Allen Emory. Allen will continue the presentation he began several months ago on VectorDesigner and Pixelmator, graphic applications that were part of the MacHeist bundle offered on-line in January. These are relatively new applications that can do some of the work of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop at much lower costs.
As he does most every month, TMUG member Bob Chandler will facilitate answers to your Mac, iPod, and iPhone questions before the main program. And, of course, we'll have door prizes for TMUG members. We hope you'll join us at 6:30 pm on May 12 at Hope Community Church on Buck Jones Road in Raleigh. Remember, TMUG is the undisputed leading Mac User Group in the Triangle! We hope you can be there.
TMUG meetings are free and open to the public. For more info, please go to about TMUG.
April 08
Of course we will have our Question and Answer session, sure to be fun and helpful.
Please come and join us in Cary, NC. This will be the last of our checking out new locations meetings. It begins at 6:30 pm, and is free and open to the public.
See you on April 14th!
March 08
Local North Carolina Mac developer the Iconfactory has kindly agreed to come over from their Greensboro base and push some pixels our way. Designer and founder Ged Maheux, plus webmaster Anthony Piraino, will demo some of their icon specialty software and answer questions. The company got started in 1996 on AOL. They hosted the first Pixelpalooza contest in 1997, have been included on Guy Kawasaki's Evangelist and mentioned in WIRED magazine. The Iconfactory project/client list includes: ACT!, PalmOne, Red Hat and Stuffit Deluxe.Some of their products: CandyBar OS 10.5 utility which customizes icons and the dock IconBuilder OS X filter used to create icons with Photoshop or Fireworks iPulse OS X utility which monitors system performance via a customizable user interface Twitterrific OS X app for reading and posting to Twitter xScope OS X set of tools for on-screen graphics and layouts These guys like to have fun too — they have created Frenzic, a puzzle based game which runs on OS X with a version for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apparently it's pretty addictive, and Ged said they will give away some licenses as door prizes. Before the pixel pushers take over the program, MacVantage's Bob Chandler will take 15 or 20 minutes and answer Mac questions from the floor — a super TMUG tradition. As always, our monthly meetings start at 6:30 pm, are free, and are open to the public. There will be door prizes for members. Annual memberships and renewals are available for $35, and includes an OSX TMUG sticker.
February 08
The February meeting was held on Monday, Feb 11. It was our first meeting not at NCML for years. The location at McKinney in the American Tobacco Campus was fabulous. Once settled, we talked about the venues and the need to nominate officers for next year. Bob Chandler followed with his usually Q&A session, and showed all his new MacBook Air. Sweet. Charles Mangin then gave an impressive demo of Quartz Composer. Our Prez, Allen Emory, then used the remaining time to talk about VectorDesigner, a software that was included in the just-concluded MacHesit bundle. As time ran out, it was decided that Allen would continue with VD and Pixelmator at the March meeting. Attendance at the February meeting was approx 29 members and 20 visitors.
January 08
The January meeting was held on Monday, Jan 14. The main topic of course was our loss of the NCML auditorium as a venue, and we spent a good bit of time discussing the reasons for that, and the alternatives we are considering, which included venues in Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh. Bob Chandler followed with his usually Q&A session, and our December Leopard winner presented his review of the latest incarnation of OSX. Duane Reaugh followed up with his review, and we said our final farewell to the NCML venue, where we at least had working wireless to end our tenure there. Attendance at the January meeting was approx 28 members and N visitors.
December 07
The December TMUG meeting was held on Monday, Dec 10. The NCML cafeteria was the venue for our annual holiday party. Duane Reaugh emceed the Q&A, while a near-record crowd on the order of 70 attendees took part in various snacks and drinks. We had not one but 2 great raffles, with Charles Mangin winning the Airport Extreme & Jim Flaherty taking home the OWC ministack 750GB external hard drive. One of our newest and youngest members, Ben Zalutsky, won a copy of Leopard and will be presenting a review of it at the Jan meeting. Attendance at the November meeting was approx 50 members and N visitors.
November 07
The November TMUG meeting was held on Monday, Nov 12. Attendance at the November meeting was approx 36 members and N visitors.
October 07
The October TMUG meeting was held on Monday, Oct 8. Attendance at the October meeting was approx 33 members and N visitors.
September 07
The September TMUG meeting was held on Monday, Sep 10. The program took us back to the NCML auditorium for two more traditional programs. Melanie Crain started by showing us "Music Fun on the Internet: A Place for the Amateur and the Serious Musician". Bob Chandler handled his traditional Q&A, and then Stefan Jeglinski presented the main program, a discussion of "kernel panics," covering the following points: what they are, why they might happen, and most importantly, strategies to try to make them go away. If you've ever suffered from these, this program (link above) is archived for reference. Attendance at the September meeting was approx 33 members and N visitors.
August 07
The August TMUG meeting was held on Monday, Aug 13. Following Bob Chandler's Q&A we broke up into small groups to discuss and ask questions about topics of interest. Two requests from members included a discussion on security topics, in particular home routers, and another group talked about setting up and using Macs as servers. We also re-raffled the Apple TV using the original raffle tickets. Guess who won: Stefan Jeglinski, a random ticket chosen by none other than Cort Boylan, who had returned the Apple TV for re-raffling. Weird? You decide... Attendance at the August meeting was approx 33 members and N visitors.
July 07
The July TMUG meeting was held on Monday, July 9. Bob Chandler returned for Q&A. Francis Shepherd of Apple was on hand to talk about the iPhone launch and shared several anecdotes about his trip to Virginia to get one. He also demonstrated many of its features and talked about his general experiences with the iPhone. TMUG members Duane Reaugh and Smythe Richbourg were present with their iPhones, so we even got to witness the device performing its primary function! We held the raffle for the Apple TV - congratulations to the winner - Cort Boylan. Attendance at the July meeting was approx 36 members and 10 visitors.
June 07
The June TMUG meeting was held on Monday, June 11. Stefan Jeglinski again substituted for Bob Chandler with Q&A. TMUG members Jeff Cole, Jim Flaherty, Dick Schenck, and Alec Whittaker reviewed and presented a variety of interesting pointers about digital photography and processing the resulting images for better results. We were unable to complete the raffle for the Apple TV, so it is being held over until the July meeting. Raffle tickets will be $10 a piece, or two for $15. Attendance at the June meeting was approx 33.
May 07
The May TMUG meeting was on Monday, May 14th. Stefan Jeglinski substituted for Bob Chandler with Q&A, and then proceeded to demo a couple of the programs from the infamous MacZot Friday the 13th sale, Dockstar, a cute one-trick pony that modifies Mail's dock icon to show how much mail is waiting in different mailboxes, and Bookdog, a bookmarks organizer and synchronization program. Allen Emory gave the main program on RapidWeaver, the easy-to-use webpage design tool, and clearly the best deal of the MacZot sale. NCML debuted what was apparently a brand new wireless system, which was reliable but a bit slow. Attendance at the May meeting was approx 35.
April 07
The April TMUG meeting was on Monday, Apr 9th. Bob Chandler started things off with Q&A, and Duane gave us a great presentation on the AppleTV, along with the flat screen Allen brought. Joe Cohn managed to successfully demo Google Earth, despite having to get an internet link through his cell phone. Yes, xcom is considering our options with respect to the problematic wireless connection at NCML. FWIW Chuck Watts of NCML offered an official apology for the repeated wireless problems. Attendance at the Apr meeting was approx 35.
March 07
The March TMUG meeting was on Monday the 12th. it was our first meeting format that was "free-form." We broke up into freely associating groups to talk about whatever was of interest in that group. Response was favorable, and there were a number of new faces in attendance. We hope to have 2-3 meetings per year like this. Attendance at the Mar meeting was approx 45.
November 12 Meeting 2007
Branford Marsalis returns to TMUG
The program format will be similar to his visit to TMUG several years ago when Branford took questions from the group on a wide range of topics related to his music, composing on a Mac, the music business and more. Since then iTunes has come onto the scene and hopefully Branford will discuss its effects on his and other artists' music sales. A few likely subjects for discussion are other methods of music distribution, digital rights management, plus whatever else we want to ask about. So bring your questions.
If you're a music fan, you won't want to miss this meeting!
Also on the program, Bob Chandler will host our monthly Q&A session. We'll also give away a couple of iTunes gift cards as door prizes which members can use to purchase Branford Marsalis' music, such as his new Braggtown album. Plus we'll discuss plans for the December Festivus program.
All TMUG meetings are open to the public - members get to experience the pride of belonging, and also can win one of 2 or 3 door prizes. Whether you are new to the Mac or a long time user, TMUG meetings have something for you and your Mac. The meeting will start at 6:30 pm.
December 2007 Holiday Party - Leopard Demo - More... Much More!
Monday, December 10, 6:30 pm, North Carolina Mutual Life in downtown Durham
TMUG is planning a very big ending for 2007, after all it was a big year. Our December meeting is our annual holiday party. We will meet in the NCML café instead of the auditorium. There will be great food and drinks. Plenty of time to mix and mingle - get to know your fellow TMUGers. We'll follow this with the holiday edition of Questions and Answers. (just like regular Q and A but during the Decemeber meeting :-D )
Our presentation this month will be Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apple System Engineer and TMUG member Francis Shepherd will show us the newest features in the newest incarnation of OS X.
But, wait, there's more...
December Super Raffle
We have a great raffle to end the year, with not one, but two great prizes
Thanks to our friend Norm at Best Buy - New Hope Commons, we have an Apple Airport Extreme base station as a prize in the raffle.
Very Cool – and...
Raffle tickets will be $5 each or 5 for $20. We will draw two winners from the same pool of tickets. First winner will have a choice of prizes. Buy as many tickets as you want, but, the same person may not win both prizes. This raffle will be held at the December meeting regardless of the number of tickets sold. TMUG Raffles are open to all, regardless of membership.
But, wait... there's still more...
iLife' 08 and Leopard
Would you like a free copy? TMUG has a copy of each to hand out in exchange for a written review. This offer is for TMUG members only. All persons interested in either iLife '08 or Leopard please come to the meeting and put your name in the hat. We'll draw names for each piece of software.
As if that wasn't enough...
Terrific Door Prizes
TMUG members will have a number of door prize opportunities at the holiday party, including iTunes gift cards.
Don't miss out, plan to attend TMUG's December Holiday Meeting.
We'll be glad you did!
