Upcoming Meetings

-1st Tuesday- Business & Legal SIG Meeting
-3rd Monday- iSIG (iPhone-iPad-iPod)
-4th Wednesday- Adobe InDesign SIG" Meeting
-Check the site for Main Meeting schedule.
  • Thoughts on Steve

    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is no longer the same river … and he is no longer the same man.” — Heraclitus

    As a professional news writer, I have spent much of the last five days thinking about — and writing about — the death of Steve Jobs. My friends [...]

  • A No-Brainer Shortcut for Quickly Creating PDFs

    …it sure would be nice to be able to save some time and some mouse clicks each time we want to create a PDF. This month’s tip gives the recipe for a shortcut to do just [...]

  • A quick way to speed up Web surfing on all your computers

    In every case I’ve seen so far, a quick, easy and free change in the DNS settings of their home Internet router fixes the problem. Switching the router from using the ISPs default DNS service to a faster, more efficient public DNS gives an immediate and noticeable improvement in browsing [...]

  • Main Meeting Location – UCF Business Incubator

    Location of the Main [...]

  • One More Thing …

    one thing Steve said that I haven’t so far heard anyone else really pick up on…
    by Charles [...]

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MacBook cases: The Plot Thickens

From TwelveSouth ,  the BookBook gives your MacBook a case that looks like an old hardback book.  Is that armor?  Or camouflage? (Or both?)

InfoWorld iPad Articles

Many articles on the iPad at InfoWorld.com:

Novell Bringing .Net Developers to Apple iPad
Why the iPad will kill the netbook (and the Chrome OS)
Act now to avoid the Apple tablet apocalypse
What you should know about Apple’s tablet

Fujitsu Prepping Lawsuit over iPad Trademark

The New York Times Website has the story.

The name “iPad” has been used a few different ways it seems. Many are listed at the bottom of the article.

AT&T Admits Some Problems with NY Service?

From “The Gothamist” website:

3G service has suffered in New York due to “better than average iPhone penetration,”  (Read the full article on their website).

Phrases Apple Changed Forever

“Think Different”
“Launch Pad”

Steve Jobs Video Available on Web

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html

It plays in the QuickTime player rather than iTunes.

To cut to the chase, you can try these reference movie files.

Steve Jobs talks about the category the iPad will fill.  Why netbooks aren’t enough. Shows the iPad.  Clip ends just before he begins to demonstrate.

QuickTime-iPad Unveil-Category And First Reveal 5:33

The iPad — The “Goldilocks” Computer?

by Charles [...]

MacLegal SIG meetings

Our next Meeting is scheduled for February 2, 2010 at the ScanDesign Building in Altamonte Springs. We meet in the large conference room on the Third Floor at 7:30 PM. This SIG is in its 23 years of meeting once each month to discuss problems and features of the Mac platform. [...]

Apple Announcement Coverage

“This Week In Tech”  (TWIT for short)  has a link on the MacBreak Weekly site talking about live coverage.  I’m not sure how they will accomplish that.  Perhaps by SMS messages from someone in the room.

See the MacBreak Weekly page here: http://twit.tv/mbw

for the link directly to the live video feed:  http://live.twit.tv

InDesign SIG meeting tonight (Jan 27)

Join the InDesign user group meeting this evening from 6-9 pm at the Winter Park Civic Center.

Cameron Thorp demonstrates the use of the Wacom tablet with PhotoShop.  His work is amazing.

Links:

http://www.indesignusergroup.com