LAUG 2.0 News

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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