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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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 [...]

Another Stellar iSIG Meeting

A Nice Screen Sharing Option

Are you a frequent user of a VNC client application like “Chicken of the VNC” or “Apple Remote Desktop”?  Is the complexity of getting and keeping VNC service more than you’d like?  Then this tip may be for you.

Mac OS X 10.6 has a nice folder of applications hidden away in the System folder (/System/Library/”Core [...]

Fun iPad Stands

Here’s an interesting iPad Stand: a clam-shell iBook laptop.

The page is written in Japanese, but the pictures are still fun to look at.

For the keyboard, the builder used one of the new slimline Bluetooth keyboards.

Get or Renew your MobileMe for $59

Thanks to DealMac.com for pointing out sale on single-user account Mobile Me.  You can use the code in the box to renew an existing account or start a new one.

DealMac link: http://dealmac.com/Apple-Mobile-Me-Single-Membership-for-59-5-s-h/383331.html

MegaMacs link: http://www.megamacs.com/v0/index.php?action=frameview&id=304518112&d=1

iPhone Features moving to Mac?

I just upgraded a bunch of stuff on my laptop.  I’m not sure which of them contained the new “inertia” feature for the trackpad, but I’m liking it.

Now when I scroll in long documents, I can use a throw the page and it keeps on scrolling.  It slows down over time like the iPhone/iPad, and [...]

Quotes From Left Field

“Any computer is fast enough, as long as it can get started early enough to finish what you want at the moment you realize you want it.”  – Walt Sellers

(Heh,  OK,  maybe it is a conflict of interest to quote myself.  But I do use this statement that I made up when I hear discussions [...]

Main Meeting Location - UCF Business Incubator

Location of the Main [...]

How to check the Warrantee on Apple Devices

Are you having a problem and wondering if your Mac is still under warrantee? Are you about to buy a used Mac or iPhone and the owner says there is some warrantee left?

If you have the serial number,  you can find what information Apple has on your warrantee with this web page:  https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

It can be [...]