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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Check out MacLegal, aka FLMUG’s Business and Legal SIG

Next meeting is Tuesday, February 1, at 7:30 pm.

Location:

ScanDesign

999 Douglas Avenue

Altamonte Springs

See:

http://www.meetup.com/mac-259/events/15918044/

Note: “IDC Building” is the old name. The new name is ScanDesign.

See you there!

Next FLMUG meeting – Friday, January 28, 7:00 pm, at Stardust

See:

http://www.meetup.com/Florida-Macintosh-Users-Group/events/16126008/

Stardust Video and Coffee is near the northwest corner of Corrine Drive and Winter Park Road, in Orlando.

iTwin — Remote file access just got easy

Check this out:

http://www.itwin.com/

(Thanks to Jef Walker.)

Steve Wozniak speaking at UF, Mon 11-8-2010

Mr. Wozniak will be speaking on the founding of Apple and the future of technology.

Admission is Free.   Doors open at 7:00 pm, the speech begins at 8:00 pm.

Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Steven C.  O’Connell Center (see website for driving-parking details)   http://www.oconnellcenter.ufl.edu/

Arranged by the ACCENT speaking assocation.  Details here:  http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent

FLMUG’s first restaurant meeting

Join us for our first “restaurant meeting” Saturday, September 18, at Bruegger’s Bagels! For the next few months, FLMUG will have formal meetings every other month, on the even-numbered months. On the odd-numbered months, we’ll have an informal get-together at a local restaurant, either for lunch or dinner. This meeting will usually be associated with [...]

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

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 [...]