XCOM Meeting 24 August 2009
From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
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meeting called to order
by Smythe at 7:50 pm at Carolina Ale House Restaurant, Briar Creek.
present:
- Smythe, Pres
- Allen, 2nd VP
- Chips, secretary
- Cort, treasurer
accounted for:
- Duane, 1st VP
Future Meeting Programs
September Meeting program:
- Demo of Safari version 4.0 by Duane
- tmug-list update by Chips
- Comic Life by Smythe
October Meeting program
- Snow Leopard
- Francis Shepherd will do preso
- another shorty app
future meeting suggestions:
- Chrome, Opera and Firefox demos
- Christmas / holiday party planning
- Photo Booth at Christmas party
- raffle prizes
- Time Capsule
- iPhone / iTouch accy
- Mac mini
- a nice monitor
older / previous meeting suggestions:
- TMUG.org website – what's there & how to do it…
- create your own website
- web host
- tools / apps
- Internet Radio
- (iTunes, Slacker Radio, Last fm, Pandora, AOL Radio, SOMA FM, station websites, etc)
- This covers both the Mac and iPhone/Touch devices.
- TV / movie / cable alternatives for your Mac
- Slingbox (um hmm…) - Duane
- alternatives to MS Office
- open Office, NeoOffice
- Pages, Nissus Writer
- screen capture
- Grab. Cmd-Shift-3, SnapzPro,
- another sit & share?
- social networks - LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Plex, etc
- a swap meet...?
- games demo?
- ComicLife, Stefan, ppd from Dec as he was swamped w/ work.
- no contact yet Mark Williams, founder of Modality. Smythe sent them another query.
- Photoshop or another photo editor? probably not.
- remote connection apps: e.g. Back To My Mac, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Glance
- Remote Presentations?
- Remote access?
other ideas posited to the general list in mid-January:
- Remote presentations (Glance, WebEx, GoToMeeting, BackToMyMac)
- Web and iPhone/Mac note syncing programs (SyncBook, SyncNotes, EverNote, Fliq)
- Social Networks - in real life (LinkedIn, Flickr, TweetUps, Forum software)
- Intelliscanner - Paul Scandariato (He wrote back - not until summer or fall)
digital photography follow-up:
- camera options & choices
- iPhoto `09
- facial recognition
- Geo-location
- web photo storage
- Flicker
- Smug Mug
- Picasa
- photo stitching w/ DoubleTake
- photo editing
- Preview
- GraphicConverter
Treasury & Membership Reports
- Members in good standing:, with renewals due, in grace, & recently expired.
- There were 37 in attendance at the July meeting – 34 members & 3 visitors; 1 joined & 3 renewed at the meeting.
- Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4,233.81 excluding 1 uncleared check ($56.99), 1 membership to be deposited ($35) & $100 in petty cash.
- [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 8.24.09]
New Business
- Allen wants to use the mailing labels to send out "We missed you at the last meeting" to encourage more participation from our membership.
- Recommended by Smythe or Allen to ask the members what they want to see raffled and what price for tickets.
Old Business
- we need to update the tmug.org domain whois info
- the technical contact is still listed as Paul Lemieux
- Smythe suggests that we should blog Q&A each month
- we need to identify someone to do it
- TMUG server
- [from Oct - ] Stefan has talked with MacHighway. One of the issues is that they don't use a Postfix email / Cyrus for IMAP system. (no new info)
meeting adjourned
at pm by Smythe.
Velomac 16:20, 24 August 2009 (EDT)
