Summary of 2006 meetings

December 2006

Our December meeting featured our year-end collection of funny video clips gathered from the net and other sources by Bruce Rouman.

October 2006

Our October meeting was hosted by UC Riverside California Museum of Photography. Georg Burwick, curator of digital media graciously opened their doors to our club for the evening. Peter Phun showed how iPhoto 6 can easily handle the archiving, organizing, simple editing and sharing of pictures for most end users. New features like full screen editing, one-click effects, multiple libraries make iPhoto a very respectable application for getting photos organized.

 

Sept 2006

In September, John brought in various prints from several online photo finishing labs and we compared 8 x 10 prints. He concluded that Target and Costco gave the best results.

 

Aug 2006

In August, the demo was USB gadgets, John brought in a turntable which hooks up to any Mac and makes digitizing vinyl albums a cinch. The downside is no matter what you use, you still have to sit there and manually play each LP

 

June 2006

For the month of June, Bob Saber showed us how iCal2 can simplify your lives

 

May 2006

For May, James Lee Jr. (above) demonstrated TopXNotes and even donated one copy of this modern note pad for Mac OS X for our monthly raffle. Thanks James!

 

March 2006

For March Sheldon Halpern brought in a DVD of Steve Jobs demonstrating the latest version of iLife06.

 

February 2006

For February, Bruce Rouman brought in an old Powermac 9600 and showed us the various upgrades possible for desktops. He discussed adding more RAM, changing the hard drive, adding an optical drive, adding a controller card or even a video card.

 

January 2006

In January, John gave us a demo on Roxio's latest version of Toast 7.0.