:: 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 2012 Meeting Schedule - April 21st - 2:00-4:00pm

On Saturday, April 21st, we will be doing a little celebrating as we will be 10 years old!! We will also be taking a look at security in light of the latest news about the Flashback Trojan. Hope to see you there

We will be covering the latest industry news, a review of web 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.

March Meeting Notes
Marilyn will be presenting Lino & Bookmarking. Lino - is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser. Marilyn will also be showing us another way to bookmark your favorites. Also, a monthly look at new and/or popular iOS apps for the iPhone or iPad.

February Meeting Notes
Wondershare Fantashow for Mac is the digital slideshow builder that lets anyone at home achieve a professional-looking movie in no time. If we are the most fortunate we will be digging into some iOS Apps as well.

January Meeting Notes
We will be taking a first look at the new iCloud service from Apple and the iTunes Match companion. Also be putting together our own Mac Mash-up of web sites, videos and the like.

December Holiday Meeting
We had our annual Christmas luncheon. Great friends, great food!! Visit us on Facebook to see the photos and more.

October Meeting Notes
This meeting will be a combined October & November meeting. We will be spending time on some of the Open Source software that we looked at the last meeting.

September Meeting Notes
This meeting had a focus on Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

August Meeting Notes
We spent plenty of time on Facebook privacy settings as well as looked at the vast add-ons and extensions for the Firefox and Safari browsers.

July Meeting Notes
This will be our annual summer picnic meeting. We will start a bit earlier and have lunch and then get into our normal meeting. Meeting topic will be a follow up session on iMovie on making trailers and Q & A from our June meeting. We will also spend some time working in iWork and the Pages application.

June Meeting Notes
Marilyn gave us quite the presentation on making a movie out of still photos. Great hands-on work in our lab. We also spent some time going over all of the great news out of WWDC.

May Meeting Notes
Need to be more organized? Need to move information from computer to computer? Need to share information with others in a collaborative effort? Tired of trying to remember all of those passwords? Are your secure passwords the same at every web site? Is your password security a post-it note on your monitor? Well, we will be digging into Dropbox and 1Password to show you how these two tools can make your life much easier.

April Meeting Notes
We will be taking a stroll into Terminal. We will also be taking a look at iLife '11 applications overview.

March Meeting Notes
We had an iChat presentation done by Jon Parshall from Codeweavers on Crossover for Mac. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/. We touched base on what's new with Apple and the SxSW Show and our standard Q&A session.

February Meeting Notes
We had some fun with the iPad lab. Hands-on work with Apple's coolest product. Also, we will be getting some more use out of some standard OS X applications. We also touched base on what's new with Apple, CES & Macworld and had our standard Q&A session.

January Meeting Notes
We spent time reviewing a welath of finance sites. Here are the links to all of the sites that were reviewed at the meeting. Marilyn also had quite a few web sites that she reviewed and here are those web sites.

2010 Meetings

December Meeting Notes
This was our annual Christmas meeting. Great food once again!! Plenty of discussion on meeting topics for 2011. Also discussed our scholarship program, 2010 financials, the lending library update and membership.

November Meeting Notes
We will be spending the majority of the meeting going over gadgets, gizmos and more stuff that may make a great holiday gift idea. We will be spending time surfing the web for great ideas, have a handout as a takeaway and getting some great feedback from you on what you think are great items for gifts. Come prepared to share some information if you have some cool gift ideas.

October Meeting Notes
The new iMac lab is in place and up and running!! We will have several topics covered at this meeting:
1) A hands-on presentation of iPhoto
2) Mac Maintenance
3) What's new at Apple - Update on hardware & software.
4) Q & A Session

September Meeting Notes
We will have several topics covered at this meeting:
1) iPhones and the new case program
2) Mobile Me features
3) iTunes Update
4) Software Reviewed - I have 6 applications to go over.
5) Facebook privacy concerns and issues.
6) Our three web sites and they will be unique this week.
7) What's new at Apple - Update on all of the hardware & software.
8) Q & A Session

August Meeting Notes
We will be covering a wide array of software topics including some tips on Spotlight, iPhoto, Dictionary and more. We have some information on a hardware product called WI-FIRE and we will cover some TCMUG business on membership, our scholarship program and upcoming meetings.

July Meeting Notes
Marilyn will be showing us an image-editing program. It is an easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance, edit and retouch your photos. We also reviewed our last meeting where Dave Marra spoke. We also enjoyed a rather nice picnic-style lunch.

June Meeting Notes
We have an amazing event planned for June, with a different date and a different location than usual. The MAC2 and TCMUG Macintosh Users Groups have teamed up to create this incredible event. Dave Marra of Apple! Dave is an Apple Senior Systems Engineer and a
dynamic speaker well known for his exciting demos and presentations. He travels the United States and Canada, conducting technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops

May Meeting Notes
We are going to get a first hand look at the new iPad. Blane will be giving us and up close look at the latest from Apple. Marilyn will be reviewing some cool features in Pages.

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.

2009 Meetings

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.

2008 Meetings

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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