:: 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 meetings will be on April 19th, May 17th and June 21st.

June meeting - Saturday, June 21st from 2:00 - 4:00PM. 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. This meeting is being sponsored by MacPro Video and we will be giving away one free online tutorial video.

We will also be covering three freeware and shareware software, 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 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.

Saturday, August 19th - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing all of the exciting news coming out of the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) that was in San Francisco on August 7th - 11th. We will also be taking a sneak peak at the new Mac OS X - Leopard - 10.5. We will be touching base on Pages from iWork '06 and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

Saturday, July 15th - Meeting Notes

Saturday, June 17th - Meeting Notes
We will bring our digital cameras, have a Sony Photo printer to show - we will do some editing of sample photos with Photoshop Elements and if anyone wants to bring their camera and cords they can take a couple of pictures and put them into iPhoto for fun.

Saturday, May 20th - Meeting Notes
If you didn't have time to catch everything at the recent Macworld in San Francisco, don't worry! We will be showing the Peachpit Meeting-in-a-Box: Macworld San Francisco 2006! "We will bring the tradeshow experience directly to you with a DVD chock full of expert training from some of our top authors - Jim Heid, Maria Langer, David Blatner, Diana Weynand, just to name a few! You'll also see highlights from the show floor and the meeting will include other cool goodies!"

Saturday, April 22nd - Meeting Notes
We took a sneak peak at the new iLife '06 and iWork '06. Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!! We're 4 years old this month. All in attendance helped out with the cake & ice cream.

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