NCMUG Events & News

April 15th, 2008 - Derrick Story
"Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Stunts". Derrick will show you how to use a variety of ordinary items to enhance your picture taking.

March 18th, 2008 - Jean MacDonald, Marketing Director, SmileOnMyMac
will show you how to save money, time and effort with SmileOnMyMac's productivity tools. She'll show off the latest versions of PDFpen, DiscLabel and TextExpander, and share her tips and tricks for getting the most out of these great programs.

November 20th, 2007 - Robert Downard, Business Consultant, Apple Inc.
A North Coast Mac Users Group exclusive presentation of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the world's most advanced operating system. Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Leopard introduces over 300 new features, including a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow , Quick Look, Time Machine and Spaces.

October 16th, 2007 - Nadyne Mielke, User Experience Researcher, Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU). With Office 2008 for Mac scheduled to ship in early 2008, attendees will learn about the new features coming in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Entourage. Office 2008 will be a Universal application, compatible with Office 2007 for Windows, and introducing a set of new Mac-first, Mac-only features for Office.

September 18th, 2007 - Larry Liang, US Sales Manager USGlobalsat, Inc., The producers of the BU353 BT338 & BT359 GPS Receivers. Attendees will learn the Basics of GPS, How to use GPS for navigation on a Mac, what software titles that are available for different GPS applications, and find out what's new on the horizon for Mac GPS Users.

August 21st , 2007 - Michael Sidejas, Product Marketing Specialist, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. - Attendees will not only learn how to set up and use a scanning solution, but also understand the business benefits they can achieve through document management tools to capture, manage, preserve, protect and deliver information stored on- legal contracts, bills, HR forms, business cards, work orders, receipts and countless others.

July 17th, 2007 - Jennifer and Gordon Bell from Prosoft Engineering, will be demonstrating a new software program, Jax for iPod. Jax is a revolutionary program that opens iTunes and your iPod to a whole new universe of possibilities. They will also be going over their line up of utilities including: Data Rescue II, Drive Genius, Picture Rescue and Data Backup 3. These award-winning programs allow you to back up, recover, maintain and manage your important data.