:: Monthly Meetings ::

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The meetings are held at the Tuscarawas-Carroll-Harrison Educational Service Center located at 834 East High Avenue in New Philadelphia. Get directions to the TCHESC here.

Upcoming meeting dates: July 11th

June meeting - Saturday, June 13th from 2:00 - 4:00PM.
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. We will also be discsussing social media and networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like.

We will also be covering the latest industry news, a report from the blogs & rumor sites, a Q & A session and of course looking at our top web site resources. See you there!!

We will be meeting at the Tuscarawas Carroll Harrison Educational Service Center on East High Avenue in New Philadelphia.

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.

November17th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of the new Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. We will also be reviewing some cool free software applications.

October 20th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we had an overview of NeoOffice, a freeware office suite, an iTunes add-on called Sizzling Keys, a look at some cool iTunes features and an iPod Classic show & tell.

September 15th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of Screen Mimic and iShowU.

August 18th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of the Filemaker application and learning a bit about maintenance and repair on your Mac.

July 21st - Meeting Notes
This meeting we worked hands-on with the Comic Life application, took an in-depth look at Google web applications and reviewed Freeverse gaming.

June 23rd - Meeting Notes
This meeting we will be covering Roxio Toast DVD & CD Burning software and Apple's Pages iWork application.

May 12th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we will cover Preventative Maintenance for your Mac as well as the Best of Mac OS X Tiger Hints straight from MacWorld Expo.

April 14th - Meeting Notes
This meeting will feature an overview of Adobe's Photoshop application. Thanks Tim!!!

March 17th - Meeting Notes
This meeting will feature an in-depth look at Apple's iDVD application. Marilyn will walk us through a hands-on demonstration of this powerful application. We will be covering the latest industry news and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

February 24th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we took an in-depth look at Apple's iPod family and the iTunes application. We also took a look at a couple of our newest podcasts. One on iPod web sites and one on the RAM upgrade we did on my 12" Powerbook.

January 20th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we took a look at RSS feeds (RSS Menu 1.9.5), upgrading your computers RAM and DVD Drive and we reviewed all the events at Macworld 2007.

December 2nd - Meeting Notes
We will be previewing iRemember Digital Scrapbooking software at the meeting. What a great time of the year to be getting into scrapbooking. We will have a copy of this software to give away at the meeting for one of our door prizes. There will also be a 20% discount available for TCMUG members to purchase this software.

October 21st - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing the OS X Tiger application Automator, related web site resources and third party software from Automated Workflows ( http://www.automatedworkflows.com ) Ultimate Productivity Automator Action Pack. We will be having a drawing for a free copy of this software package at this meeting as well as for those in attendance can get a 35% discount if they want to purchase the software.

September 16th - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing Mac OS X Services, Smart Folders, the latest industry news and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

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