Mark Spain kicked off the meeting with announcements and introductions around the room.
During the introductions we were surprised that an attendee works with CLEAR to sell 4G WiMax data service in Orlando starting next month. This kind of service has only been available in Jacksonville or Daytona so far.
John Walker’s News presentation was next. He gave us a summary of Apple’s announcements from the WWDC conference on Monday.
During the iPhone 4 items, we talked about Steve Job’s mention of selling 10′s of millions of Facetime devices. No one was sure what this meant.
Safari 5
Flash 10.1 was released for Mac this week, but was NOT GPU-enabled for speed as expected.
Jeff walker
Gave us a presentation on using Spotlight more effectively.
Finding in other user folder
Find apps
Find sys prefs
Find dictionary entries
Find emails that mail can’t find
Find attachments
Hide things from spotlight in sysbprefs
Use other things to search better
AND OR NOT
Minus sign to remove
Do calculations
Q What about indexing epub files?
A Look for plugin to give Spotlight the ability to index a new kind of file.
John Walker went on to discuss Macintosh application picks for customizing your Mac. He did begin by warning us that we should fully backup our Macs before trying these.
Two apps for customizing the icons on a Mac:
CandyBar is $29
LiteIcon is Free, but not 10,6 compatible.
Several sites were noted as sources of icons. John showed many of his favorites.
John also talke about changing the dock, the desktop background, images for the background, a program called GeekTool which is harder to use, but will put things on the desktop from many sources.
John mentioned more applications, but I couldn’t type fast enough on an iPad to note them. He did note that many modifier applications exist, but you should check their reputations before downloading or using them.
The meeting ended with prize giveaways of an eBook, iTunes gift card, and very rare FLMUG merchandise.
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