:: Monthly Meetings ::

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The meetings are held at the East Central Ohio Educational Service Center located at 834 East High Avenue in New Philadelphia. Get directions to the TCHESC here.

Upcoming 2010 Meeting Schedule - May 15th (The iPad - Pages) and June 19th (Dave Marra from Apple presentation.)

We will be covering the latest industry news, a report from the blogs & rumor sites and a Q & A session. See you there!!

We will be meeting at the East Central Ohio Educational Service Center on East High Avenue in New Philadelphia.

April Meeting Notes
Got an overview of a wealth of Social Media applications and plenty of tips and tricks for your Firefox or Safari browser. Also celebrated our 8th birthday with cake & ice cream!!

March Meeting Notes
We spent time digging into the Mac Os X System preferences.

February Meeting Notes
We had a hands-on workshop with the iPod Touch.

January Meeting Notes
We worked on Photoshop Elements and also had a presentation on Avery Design Pro.

December Meeting - Meeting Notes
We had our annual Christmas Party. Plenty of good eats!!

November Meeting - Meeting Notes
Marilyn showed off the new version of iMovie '09. We also had a great presentation from Jon Parshall from Codeweavers and he showed us via iChat their excellent product, Crossover for Mac.

October Meeting - Meeting Notes
We will be showing a cool freeware application called Quicksilver and reviewing the latest version of iTunes 9.

August Meeting - Meeting Notes
Marilyn showed us some new software called Viola. Kevin gave us a little refresher on backing up your information.

July meeting - Meeting Notes
We spent a good deal of time discussing social media and networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like. We also will be having Hayley review some great web sites.

June meeting - Meeting Notes
Marilyn will be presenting a hands-on look at Apple's iWeb. Attendees will be able to design a website using iWeb. It will be hands on - take the fear out of creating a web site. I'll have all the pieces and parts available to them and we'll create a photo gallery, design a home page, learn about the links etc.

May meeting - Meeting Notes
We reviewed some great software from 1Password. 1Password takes care of all your online passwords so you can use strong and unique passwords for every site and never forget any of them! We also looked at ArtRage, it’s an easy to use, stylish painting software for Mac OS X! Other software tidbits we looked at were Cosmic Painter and Image Well. We had some awesome web sites to review as well and here they are, Switchers Blog, Mental Floss, Indexed and Screencast Online.

April meeting - Meeting Notes
The TCMUG hosted a GarageBand seminar and workshop. Read the press release here.

March meeting - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing and getting a hands-on look the the newest version of Keynote that is part of iWork '09. We will also be taking a test drive of the latest hard drive support tool, Drive Genius 2

February Meeting - Meeting Notes
We continued with a second meeting on a more in-depth look at Google applications like gMail, Calendar, Documents, Reader and Picasa Web Albums. We also spent some time on some cool new web sites, Hulu.com, Yelp.com and Mint.com

January meeting - Meeting Notes
We reviewed the wealth of Google applications that are out there and there are a lot of them to choose from.

December Meeting -
Our first annual Christmas party. Good food...good time.

November meeting - Meeting Notes
For our November meeting we are going to be taking a hands-on look at iPhoto '08. We will look at organizing your photos in events, how to enhance your photos and then turn those awesome digital photos that you took into a Christmas card or calendar project. You can also start a small book project - just in time for those Christmas gifts. Please bring your digital photos on a CD, flash drive or bring your digital camera (with the USB cable please) and we will learn how to import your own photos into iPhoto. If you don't have photos we will provide some for you. We will be meeting in the computer lab at the TCHESC where everyone can work on a computer that has iLife 08.

October 18th - Meeting Notes
Mark will be presenting how to take your old vinyl records and cassettes and make them digital recordings. We will be continuing the video tutorial series on Mastering Mac OS X made possible by MacPro Video.

September 20th - Meeting Notes
We will be continuing the video tutorial series on Mastering Mac OS X made possible by MacPro Video. Scott presented the new iPhone 3G.

July 26th - Meeting Notes
We will be continuing the video tutorial series on Mastering Mac OS X made possible by MacPro Video. We will also be digging into finding, playing, managing and sharing podcasts. Links from the meeting: Podcast Alley, Podcast.com, PodcastPickle and Apple Podcasts.

June 21st - Meeting Notes
We will be starting a video tutorial series on Mastering Mac OS X made possible by MacPro Video. We will also be looking at an Apple Training Series lesson for iWork '08.

May 17th - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing and working with chat applications for the Mac, such as, iChat, Adium and more.

April 19th - Meeting Notes
We will be celebrating our 6th anniversary. We will be digging into a wealth of Internet browsers for Mac OS X. Ten browsers to be exact.

March 15th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we had two presentations, one presented by Mark on scanning basics and one presented by Marilyn on the new and easy to use personal database software, Bento. Our web site resources were TV Links, File Hippo, Buzzillions and Etsy.

February 16th - Meeting Notes
Our main topic will be a review of the Macworld convention and an in-depth look at the Macbook Air and Time Capsule. Our web site resources were Pages, 10 Cool Mac Tricks, HassleMe and Jig Zone.

January 19th - Meeting Notes
Our main topic was a hands-on lab with Blurb Booksmart. We also looked at Sharpshooter, iConiCal and Dashboard Widgets. Our web site resources were Think Geek, Veer Catalogs and TinyURL.

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