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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Kramer of Mad Money: Buy Apple & Hang On

Jan 26 6:10 pm – just heard him say it’s cheap. Also called it “Red Hot”. But predicts short-term rough ride for stock price, so strap in. Targets $300 per share.

Caller mentioned rumor of Electronic Arts deal.

And the World Holds Its Breath…

Apple’s big announcement is Wed at 1:00 pm EST…

Mac & iPhone Developers GOTO Atlanta

The Mac Developer Network (a Europe-based group) is hosting a convention in Atlanta in cooperation with the Big Nerd Ranch (a programmer training company) on February 21st to 24th.

Year in Mac Security Report

Intego,  a maker of Mac security software, published a report on their findings for the year.

The PDF file can be downloaded from their blog: http://blog.intego.com/

An interesting security issue was the increase in trojan horses in pirated Mac software.  The malware writers had such success with the relatively cheap iWork, they quickly moved into putting out [...]

AP News: AT&T Problem Logs Users into Wrong Sites

The Linux Users Group (LEAP-CF.org)  brought this to my attention.

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/10043664/AP_Exclusive_Network_flaw_causes_scary_Web_error

The conjecture is that some problems left web cookies in an AT&T computer. The cookies were each assigned to an IP address.  When the IP address was re-issued to a different smart-phone so it could connect to the internet, that phone was now considered logged into [...]

Apple Posts “Highest EVER” Earnings for Q1

In Apple’s earnings announcement, for fiscal 2010′s first quarter, they revealed a profit of 3.38 BILLION (with a “B”) dollars.  (Up from $2.26 Billion one year ago.) How many companies can say they went UP over 1 BILLION dollars in one year in a down economy?

They sold

3.36 Million Macs (up 33% from last year)
8.7 Million [...]

Steve Balmer Autographs MacBook

In this Slashdot story and video,  MicroSoft CEO Steve Balmer graciously (and somewhat humorously) autographs a college student’s MacBook during a technology conference held on campus in Nashville.

Next SIG: InDesign Orlando Wed, Jan 27

This SIG is well-known for providing great speakers with tips, tricks and information that help you get more work done in less time with more impressive results. While primarily focused on InDesign, other Adobe products are discussed as well.

You can find details of the meeting at www.InDesignOrlando.com  or http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/orlando/

Next Main Meeting: Thursday, Feb 11, 2010

See you all there at Y-Partnership.

Google Map To Meeting Location

iPhone SIG meeting Thursday

Just a reminder about tonight’s meeting.

Come to share your favorite app.  Ask a question about your iPhone. Find out about apps you never would have noticed.  You can even find an iPhone developer or two for questions about making new apps.

Macintosh and PC conversations are OK too, especially if you want to talk about using [...]