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LAUG Podcast 01.12: Welcome to Macintosh: Q&A

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:22:07 +0000

A podcast from the January 2012 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a Q&A session by all the members present discussing everything from iOS syncing, iCloud, iPhoto Libraries and more.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Mac OS X Lion: Peachpit Learning Series courtesy of Peachpit, along with a one month trail of video training courtesy of macProVideo.com.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://laugks.org/.

LAUG Podcast 12.11: Apple Holiday Buying Guide

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:11:37 +0000

A podcast from the December 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by the staff from iCafe Lawrence discussing Holiday buying ideas from the Apple product line.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Microsoft Office 2011 Portable Genius and Mac OSX Snow Leopard for Dummies both courtesy of Wiley, along with a one month trail of video training courtesy of macProVideo.com.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://laugks.org/.

LAUG Podcast 11.11: Apple Show and Tell

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:19:05 +0000

A podcast from the November 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by all the members in attendance showing off their favorite Apple or Apple related technology.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an MacTuneUp from Macware, along with a one month trail from video training courtesy of macProVideo.com.

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LAUG Podcast 10.11: To go forward, you must backup

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:45:47 +0000

A podcast from the October 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from the LAUG’s very on Dave Greenbaum of DoctorDave.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an DiskTools Pro from Macware, along with a one month trail from video training courtesy of macProVideo.com.

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LAUG Podcast 09.11: It’s Time to Roar with Lion: Apple’s new cat

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:51:25 +0000

A podcast from the September 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a look at the latest version of the Mac OS, 10.7 Lion.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an Mac OS X Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide from Peachpit, along with a one month trail from video training courtesy of macProVideo.com.

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LAUG Podcast 08.11: Smile On My Mac Product Showcase

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:50:41 +0000

A podcast from the August 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included one a remote iChat presentation from Smile Software on their entire line of products.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included copies of DiscLabel and TextExpander courtesy of our guest from Smile Software.

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LAUG Podcast 07.11: Stump the Experts

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:42:37 +0000

A podcast from the July 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included one of our bi-annual stump the experts Q&A meeting.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an Case Logic 13″ Laptop Sleeve from Case Logic, along with a copy of Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual courtesy of O’Reilly.

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LAUG Podcast 05.11: Nothing left behind:

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:06:04 +0000

A podcast from the May 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by various board members on different ways to access your files from iOS device remotely.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an iPhone 4 Case and an iPad Case from Hard Candy Cases, along with a copy of Take Your iPad to Work courtesy of Course PTR.

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LAUG Podcast 03.11: Running Windows Programs on your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:44:28 +0000

A podcast from the March 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by John Parshall from Codeweavers about installing windows applications on your Mac via the CrossOver application.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Hard Candy iPhone 4 Case from Hard Candy Cases, Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad from Wiley and a copy of CrossOver courtesy of Codeweavers.

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LAUG Podcast 01.11: Welcome to Macintosh

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:18:47 +0000

A podcast from the January 2011 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a round table conversation on our yearly topic “Welcome to Macintosh.” Board members and members of the group discussed everything and anything related to Apple, the Mac and beyond.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Hard Candy iPhone 4 Case from Hard Candy Cases, Using iPhone from Que Publishing and the iPad Project Book courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 12.10: Annual Apple Holiday Buying Guide

LAUG 2.0 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:32:37 +0000

A podcast from the December 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by various members of the group, including those from Lawrence’s own iCafe, presenting our annual holiday gift guide.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the presentation which included demos of the above products by group members.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included My New iPad: A User’s Guide from O’Reilly and the iPhone 4 Portable Genius courtesy of Wiley.

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LAUG Podcast 11.10: Show and tell: Apple cornucopia

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:00:27 +0000

A podcast from the November 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by various members of the group on topics such as iLife ’11, AppleTV and the Livescribe pen.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the presentation which included demos of the above products by group members.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Hard Candy iPhone 4 Case from Hard Candy, the Visual Quickstart Guide iPhoto ’09 from Peachpit and iPad Portable Genius courtesy of Wiley.

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LAUG Podcast 10.10: Snow Leopard Server: All the cool stuff

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:59:38 +0000

A podcast* from the October 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by Brian Best of BestMacs on all of the powerful uses of Apple’s Snow Leopard server software.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which included a presentation on features as well as a demo of practical uses for the technology.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Otterbox Commuter for iPad from Otterbox and Snow Leopard the missing manual courtesy of O’Reilly Books.

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*Disclaimer: Due to technical difficulties only main presentation was recorded this month. Also the sound quality is low, however the value of the content was very high so we wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to hear an excellent presentation.

LAUG Podcast 09.10: Teaching via your Mac: Screencasting for beginners

LAUG 2.0 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:10:30 +0000

A podcast from the September 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by board members Matt Kappenman and Michelle York on the various ways users can record and edit screencasts right on their mac.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which included walkthroughs on Quicktime X, iShowu and Screenium.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Otterbox Defender iPhone Case from Otterbox.com and an iPod Arm band.

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LAUG Podcast 08.10: Making Digital Memories last : Making memories last digitally

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:03:13 +0000

A podcast from the August 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by Angie Brunk on the ways to preserve and protect digital/analog videos and photos.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which included practical advice on the methods to archive and store these important files.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Otterbox Commuter TL iPhone Case from Otterbox.com and the Hard Candy iPhone 4 Case courtesy of Hard Candy.

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LAUG Podcast 07.10: iPad and iPhone with the experts of Mission: Repair

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:11:45 +0000

A podcast from the July 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by Ryan from Mission: Repair on iPad and iPhone repair.

The meeting opened up with introductions and recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which included an onsite iPhone repair, tips for what’s involved in the repair as well as iPhone disaster horror stories.

Thanks again to Mission: Repair for furnishing our monthy door prize, an iPod classic, and for presenting such an entertaining and information meeting.

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LAUG Podcast 05.10: Power to the PDF!

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:49:28 +0000

A podcast from the May 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included PDF tips and tricks from Board Members’ Bonnie Hall and Michelle York.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which involved information about how to best utilize Adobe Acrobat and Apple Preview.app for viewing and editing PDFs.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Otterbox Commuter TL iPhone Case from Otterbox.com and the iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 03.10: iTunes 101: All you can do

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:53:02 +0000

A podcast from the March 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included iTunes tips and tricks from several group members.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which involved information on iTunes Sharing, DVD conversion to iTunes and tips on how to best utilize the iTunes Store.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Otterbox Commuter TL iPhone Case from Otterbox.com and the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series, courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 02.10: Welcome to Macintosh!

LAUG 2.0 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:11:00 +0000

A podcast from the February 2010 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting was another of our semi-anual Question & Answer Meetings.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news. This was followed by the above presentation which consisted of many member questions.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Altego 13″ Clear Laptop Sleeve from Samsill.com and the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide, courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 12.09: Why Google is the best program for your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:18:17 +0000

A podcast from the December 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation by the LAUG’s own DoctorDave Computer Repair, Dave Greenbaum, on the many was to utilize Google services on your Mac.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. This was followed by the above presentation on everything from Google Maps to Gmail to Google Docs to Google Sync all on your Mac.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the Apple Training Series: iWork 09 and the Microsoft Office 2008 Visual Quickstart Guide, both courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 11.09: Give the Gift of Apple for the Holidays

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:43:40 +0000

A podcast from the November 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from the staff of iCafe on Apple’s Holiday product line, including gift ideas for friends and family.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included an Apple Magic Mouse courtesy of our presenters iCafe.

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LAUG Podcast 10.09: Cutting the Wires: Wireless networking on your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:08:11 +0000

A podcast from the October 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included an great presentation on all forms of wireless networking available on your Mac by our very own Dave Greenbaum from DoctorDave Computer Repair.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. This was followed by the above presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included The Macintosh iLife ’09 courtesy of Peachpit Press and a Laptop Sleeve from Crumpler.

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LAUG Podcast 09.09: Don’t Take My Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:31:01 +0000

A podcast from the September 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included an informative presentation on how to convince your IT department to let you keep your Mac by Brian Best from BestMacs.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. Also, here is a copy of the meeting’s handout and agenda. This was followed by a presentation on the ins and outs of setting up a Mac on a Windows Network as well as the company Groupware. Included here is a link to a recap of the presentation courtesy of Brian.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Pogo Stylus from Ten One Design and Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders courtesy of O’Reilly Media.

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LAUG Podcast 08.09: Making Beautiful Music with your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:16:39 +0000

A podcast from the August 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a fantastic presentation on making music with your Macintosh by Terrence Moore.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. This was followed by a presentation on how to make pro-quality music with your Mac in the box at home. GarageBand and Logic’s impressive capabilities with a mic, your instrument and a little creativity.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of Apple Training Series: GarageBand 09 and the Apple Training Series: iLife 09 both courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 07.09: User Questions

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:48:01 +0000

A podcast from the July 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included another great Member Question-Answer session.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and member questions. This was followed by the aforementioned presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of The Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide from O’Reilly Media and the Roxio Toast 10 courtesy of Roxio.

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LAUG Podcast 05.09: Proper care and feeding of your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:46:13 +0000

A podcast from the May 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from various Board members who discussed their favorite maintenance tips and utilities.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by the aforementioned presentation.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of the Apple Training Series: iLife 08 and the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide, both courtesy of PeachPit.

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LAUG Podcast 04.09: To Go Forward You Must Backup

LAUG 2.0 — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:04:25 +0000

A podcast from the April 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from the group’s own Dave Greenbaum.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Dave Greenbaum on how to backup your Macintosh.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of Klix Photo Recovery courtesy of JoeSoft and the iPhoto 08 Visual QuickStart Guide courtesy of PeachPit.

Also, included here are Dave’s slides from the meeting, click here to download them: Presentation PDF and Keynote Presentation

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LAUG Podcast 03.09: TV on Your Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:10:51 +0000

A podcast from the March 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from the group’s own Matt Kappenman. Matt is a local video editor & digital compositor who has worked on everything from educational software to feature film visual effects. He also enjoys tinkering with Home Theater Computers and most recently dropped all commercial TV services in favor of his Mac Mini…and more importantly did it Legally!

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by on watching TV content on your Mac by Matt Kappenman.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of Toast 10 courtesy of Roxio.

Also, included here are Matt’s slides from the meeting, as well as a link to the antenna he uses to watch Digital Broadcasts, the Terk HDTVa. Download the slides here.

Download this month’s podcast: LAUG Podcast 03.09

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LAUG Podcast 02.09: Software crashes: cure and prevention

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:34:17 +0000

A podcast from the February 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included a presentation from the group’s own Mike Silverman. Mike’s a quality assurance engineer for a Fortune 500 technology company gave us an overview of how software is development, why it crashes, and how to use that knowledge to get the tech support you need!

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by an excellent presentation by Mike Silverman.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included Mac Migration: The Small Business Guide to Switching to the Mac as well asThe iPhone Book: Second Edition, courtesy of Peach Pit Press.

Also, included are Mike’s slides from the meeting. Download them here.

Download this month’s podcast: LAUG Podcast 02.09

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LAUG Podcast 01.09: Welcome to Macintosh

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:07:52 +0000

A podcast from the January 2009 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included the annual question and answer meeting where we spend the entire meeting answering user’s questions.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a Q&A led by our very own Dave Greenbaum.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included Mac OS X Leopard Killer Tips as well as Cool Mac Apps, both courtesy of Peach Pit Press.

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LAUG Podcast 12.08: iPhone Apps: All you need to know

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:41:05 +0000

A podcast from the December 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included info on iPhone apps from local Developers, Free State Labs makers of Grocery IQ (iTunes link).

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Free State Labs on the successes and failures of the Apple iPhone app store.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included PDO Sporteer Armband for iPhone from PDOStore.com as well as Stox courtesy of Prosoft Engineering.

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LAUG Podcast 11.08: Socialism: “Social Networking” sites

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:18:21 +0000

A podcast from the November 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included info on how to use social networking sites on your Mac and iPhone with Mike Silverman.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Mike Silverman on ways to get involved with the many social networking sites on the web.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included Facebook: The Missing Manual from O’Reilly and the equinux Stationary Pack from Equinux Software.

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LAUG Podcast 10.08: This Old Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:45:33 +0000

A podcast from the October 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included info on how to repurpose your older Macintosh by Bruce Sergeant.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Bruce Sergeant on ways to repurpose older Mac hardware.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included the iLife 08 Apple Pro Training book from Peachpit and the One Clean Duo Pack from AM Denmark A/S.

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LAUG Podcast 09.08: Genealogy and the Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:25:28 +0000

A podcast from the September 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting included info on how to research and setup your family Genealogy on the Mac.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Julie Sergeant on how to research and setup your family Genealogy on the Mac.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Laptop Case from equinix, Getting Started with Leopard from friendsofed, and the iPhone Book courtesy of Peachpit.

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LAUG Podcast 08.08: Making Digital Memories Last

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:45:50 +0000

A podcast from the August 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting presented tips and tricks for preserving digital and paper media.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation by Angie Brunk on how to protect and preserve digital photos as well as an assortment of paper media.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a Laptop Desk from LapWorks as well as a tote bag courtesy of DriveSavers.

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LAUG Podcast 07.08: Internet Safe Kids

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:50:38 +0000

A podcast from the July 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting presented tips and tricks on keeping children safe on the Internet.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation from Headquarters Counseling Center and Dave Greenbaum on how to protect and monitor children on the Internet.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a copy of Pzizz from Pzizz Technology as well as Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard courtesy of friends of ED.

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LAUG Podcast 05.08: Learn all about .Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:41:29 +0000

A podcast from the May 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting revolved around using Apple’s .Mac service to the fullest.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, and opening questions. This was followed by a presentation from Brian Best of Best Macs on the ins and outs of Apple’s .Mac service, recently renamed MobileMe.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included free training on .Mac with Best Macs as well as Stox courtesy of Prosoft Engineering.

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LAUG Podcast 04.08: Managing Finances on your Mac for Beginners

LAUG 2.0 — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:41:40 +0000

A podcast from the April 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting revolved around using software to manage finances on your Macintosh.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, opening questions followed by a presentation from Dave Greenbuam on how to utilize your Mac to keep track of your personal finances. The slides from the meeting are available in either PDF or Keynote formats.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included Leopard: This Missing Manual from O’Reily Media as well as Stox courtesy of Prosoft Engineering.

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LAUG Podcast 03.08: Setting your iPod free

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:19:11 +0000

A podcast from the March 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting revolved around the iTunes and the iPod combo, as well as ways to enhance your iPod through software.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, followed by presentations from Group members on how to utilize their iPod to the fullest extent.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included iPod skins from Gelaskins, ClearCal iPod protectors as well as iPod: The Missing Manual courtesy of O’Reily Media.

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LAUG Podcast 01.08: Welcome to Mac

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:43:40 +0000

A podcast from the January 2008 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s meeting revolved around users questions about the Mac.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, followed by users questions about Apple products.

The meeting concluded with our monthly door prize, which included a t-shirt from MacBak, as well as iPhone: The Missing Manual courtesy of O’Reily Media.

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LAUG Podcast 12.07: Holiday Mac Lineup

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:30:19 +0000

A podcast from the December 2007 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation by group experts on the entire Mac Product line.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, followed by a presentation on the Mac Product line.

The meeting concluded with questions from group members and our monthly door prize including iLife ’08.

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LAUG Podcast 11.07: Leopard!

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:37:11 +0000

A podcast from the November 2007 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation by Brian Best.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, followed by an introduction to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard by Brian Best of Best Macs.

The meeting concluded with questions from group members and our monthly door prize, which included a couple Leopard t-shirts from Best Macs and “Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard” by Robin Williams courtesy of PeachPit.

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LAUG Podcast 10.07: Mac Show and Tell

LAUG 2.0 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:41:50 +0000

A podcast from the October 2007 meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentations by many of the LAUG members on what they plugin to their Mac.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news, followed by a discussion of accessories to plug in and enhance your Mac.

The meeting concluded with questions from group members and our monthly door prize, which included Macware’s MacBurn, and Sleevz for your iPod by Radtech.

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LAUG Podcast 09.07: Analog to Digital Part II

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:47:46 +0000

A podcast from the September meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on Analog to Digital Conversion by Scott Williams and Matt Kappenman.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion on how to convert Analog audio and video into digital files for archival or playback purposes.

The meeting concluded with questions from group members and our monthly door prize, which included Stunt Software’s Overflow, MacBackup by Macxware and MarinerPack from Mariner Software.

Special thanks to the crew from BadHairCut Productions for their expertise throughout the meeting and Wolfes Camera, Camcorders and Computers for lending us the USB turntable to demo.

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LAUG Podcast 08.07: Microsoft Free Lifestyle

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:10:45 +0000

A podcast from the August meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on Living the Microsoft Free Lifestyle by Dave Greenbaum.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of alternative office suites for the Mac. This included everything from iWork, Open Office, Mariner Write and host of others.

The meeting concluded with questions from group members and our monthly door prize, which included Andy Ihnatko’s iPod Fully Loaded and MacBackup by Macxware.

Click here for a PDF or Powerpoint file of Dave’s presentation at the meeting.

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LAUG Podcast 06.07: Home Automation

LAUG 2.0 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:47:01 +0000

A podcast from the June meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on Home Automation on your Mac by Bruce Sergeant.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of Home Automation on the Mac.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG Podcast 05.07: Boot Camp

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:22:59 +0000

A podcast from the May meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on running Windows on your Mac by Brian Best of Best Macs.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of how to run Windows on your Intel Mac. Various options including Bootcamp, Parallels, Wine and VMWare were discussed as well as the pros and cons of each solution.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time from Blue Pixel and a 5th Gen iPod case from Mophie.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG Podcast 04.07: Remote Control

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:09:00 +0000

A podcast from the April meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on remote controlling your Mac by Mike Silverman.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of the pros and cons of different Remote Control apps on the Mac. The programs discussed included Timbuktu Pro, Chicken of the VNC, Copilot and a host of remote control applications.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included a TuneDok from Belkin and a copy of Timbuktu Pro from Motorola.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG Podcast 03.07: You Outta be in Photos

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:45:43 +0000

A podcast from the March meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on managing and editing your digital photos by Matt, Mike and Bonnie.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news followed by a discussion of the pros and cons of different photo management and editing applications. The programs discussed included iPhoto 06, Abobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included Preventative Photoshop and Mac Design Out of the Box both from Peachpit, as well as iPhoto 6 Missing Manual courtesy of O’Reilly.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG Podcast 02.07: Wireless Networking

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:52:45 +0000

A podcast from the February meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included a presentation on Wireless Networking and the Mac hosted by LAUG’s own Dave Greenbaum.

The meeting opened up with introductions, recent Apple news and commercials and then dived into a discussion about the best routers and networking setups for group members as well as how to secure your wireless access point. Over half of members present at the meeting had never used wireless networking which helped to steer the discussion and questions.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included Podcasting and Blogging with Garageband and iWeb and Wireless Starter Kit both from Peachpit, as well as Mac User’s Guide to Living Wirelessly courtesy of Course Technology PTR.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG Podcast 01.07: Question and Answers

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:23:59 +0000

A podcast from the January meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included our annual question and answer meeting hosted by LAUG’s own Dave Greenbaum.

The meeting opened up with introductions, the recent Apple news and then jumped into questions from those in attendance as well as emailed ones. The questions ranged from how to switch from Dial-up to a cable model to how to connect a bluetooth enabled cell phone to the Mac.

The door prizes for this month’s meeting included Real World Mac Maintenance from Peachpit and iPod and iTunes: 4th Edition courtesy of O’Reilly.

Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG December 2006 Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:39:16 +0000

A podcast from the December meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included the Apple Holiday Gift Guide by specialists from the Country Club Plaza Apple Store. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG November 2006 Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:58:57 +0000

A podcast from the November meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included information about VOIP by LAUG‘s own Dave Greenbaum. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG October Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:28:26 +0000

A podcast from the October meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included information about Mac OSX Server by BestMacs‘s CEO Brian Best. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG September Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:39:52 +0000

A podcast from the September meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included Podcasting by Podcast411‘s President Robert Walch. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG August Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:34:50 +0000

Due to technical difficulties only the last 30 minutes of the meeting were recorded. Sorry for the inconvenience. A podcast from the August meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included backup strategies for the Mac by Dave Greenbaum. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG July Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:27:00 +0000

A podcast from the July meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic included photo resoration tips by Susan Allen. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org/news/.

LAUG May Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:50:29 +0000

A podcast from the May meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic was Microsoft Office by Dave Greenbaum. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org.

LAUG April Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:03:38 +0000

A podcast from the April meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic was “What is a torrent?” by Mike Silverman. Check us out on the web and subscribe to the podcast at http://www.laugks.org.

Note: My podcast rig (microphone and recorder) had a little bit of interference in the last meeting, and thus some of the content is cut off here and there. No need to worry as the meeting is completely intact with just a couple drop outs. Enjoy the podcast!

LAUG March Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:30:55 +0000

A podcast from the March meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic is “Command Line Tips and Trick” by Brian Best ( of http://www.bestmacs.com). Check us out on the web at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.

LAUG February Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:28:35 +0000

A podcast from the February meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic is using Mac Utilities and Maintenance. Check us out on the web at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.

LAUG January Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:26:54 +0000

A podcast from the January meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic is using iTunes and iPods. Check us out on the web at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.

LAUG November Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:25:51 +0000

A podcast from the November meeting of the Lawrence Apple Users Group. This month’s topic is buying and selling on Ebay. Check us out on the web at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.

LAUG October Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:23:23 +0000

A Podcast of the October meeting of the Lawrence Apple User Group. Check us out online at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.

LAUG September Podcast

LAUG 2.0 — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:14:57 +0000

A Podcast of the September meeting of the Lawrence Apple User Group. Check us out online at http://www.laugks.org. Subscribe to the podcast RSS Feed.