March 19th General Meeting – Let’s Blog!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Creating and Publishing Your Own Blog

Creating your own blog has never been easier. You can share your expertise, opinions, photographs, artwork, and promote your business in your blog. Some blogs have become so successful that their owners are completely supporting themselves through them.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms — it’s very easy to set up a blog and post text and graphics, and its basic features are free of charge.

Liane Enkelis and Garry Margolis run Metroduo, a popular site that provides LA area residents and visitors with information on activities and events accessible via the Metro Rail system. She is a photojournalist, writer, and college instructor; he is a Mac consultant, writer, and photographer. They will show you how to set up your own WordPress blog with live, on-line, step-by-step demonstrations.

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Attention All New and Current Members

Posted on January 18, 2012 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Please check in with us . . .

We want to make sure we have current contact info for all members – Name, email address, contact phone and mailing address are requested.

Member Benefits

  • Membership Card (good for discounts and preferred service at Di-No, Microconsultants and other local vendors)
  • Monthly drawing prize tickets
  • Members-Only Page access (password required)

Note: We will need your current email address to distribute the password for the Members-Only page. You may use the Membership tab and submit your info – just indicate your current membership status. The password will be sent out (via email) about one week after the February meeting.

Annual Dues

If you haven’t paid your dues, please bring a check to the next meeting. Dues are $30 ($10 for students).

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February 6th General Meeting

Posted on January 18, 2012 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Kicking Off 2012 With News from CES and Macworld!


News from the Show Floor – Billy Chang and Andrew Zima will report on CES – with lots of pictures and hot news from Mac (and other) vendors.

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Message from the President

Posted on December 30, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Holiday Greetings to You All

On behalf of the Board of the San Gabriel Valley Macintosh Users Group, I would like to thank all of you for your participation in and support of our activities during this past year.  As we enter into 2012, we eagerly anticipate new and exciting products and applications from Apple, and will bring these to you as they develop.

Because of conflicts with the Consumer Electronics Show, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and the MacWorld Expo, we will not be able to schedule a SGVMUG meeting in January.  Also, because of the Pasadena Library’s holiday schedule in February, our next meeting will be on the first-Monday, February 6th, 2012 at our usual time of 7:00 p.m.  We will return to our regular third-Monday meeting schedule in March.

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings, and please check back here on the website to keep apprised of our upcoming activities.

Best regards for the New Year,

Ron Streicher, President

San Gabriel Valley Macintosh Users Group

 

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December 19th General Meeting

Posted on November 30, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

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November 21st General Meeting

Posted on November 2, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

First ever SGVMUG Clinic – Mac 101!

Noted Apple specialists Pat Dengler, Chris Keller, Dave Whitby, Billy Chang, and Andrew Zima will be manning OS X Lion and Snow Leopard machines as well as iPads, iPhone4s and iPods with iOS5 on them.

Come and bring your questions or just sit back and see how others use both the main and hidden features to make your computing more enjoyable.

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Steve Jobs – Thank You for Your Contribution to the World

Posted on October 7, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Steve Jobs – 1955-2011

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iPhone presentation October 4th

Posted on October 4, 2011 by kodac

Apple did a media presentation today. On the invite were the words “Let’s talk iPhone”

The high points –

iOS 5 will be released October 12th with iCloud.

iPhone 4S will be available October 14th –

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October General Meeting – A “Don’t Miss” Special Event!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

The October 17 meeting is for creative writers

In honor of National Novel Writing Month in November, we’ll present essential tools for writers at the October 17 meeting. You’ll get an in-depth look at Storyist, the Mac-only story development program for novelists and screenwriters.

StoryistStoryist

It’s both a word processor and outliner, but Storyist is more. It’s designed to let you keep notes on plot, characters, and settings in the same file as your manuscript or script. There’s a even a digital cork board for creating and Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs Resigns – Tim Cook named as CEO

Posted on August 24, 2011 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. Continue reading →

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