Ray Bowler will give a review of the "Take Control of the Mac Command Line with the Terminal" TidBits ebook.

Alan Maupin will give a demonstration on creating a Screencast.

A LaptopDesk from LapWorks will be given away as a door prize.

Tags: Screencasting, Book Review, Door Prize

The next 2 meeting topics have been posted.

04/23/2009   "Shareware/Freeware" - David D. McLaughlin
Please bring suggestions about your favoirite software to the meeting

05/26/2009   "Disaster Recovery/Troubleshooting" - David D. McLaughlin & CW Smith

If you have additional ideas for meeting topics, please contactone of the group Officers

Tags: Topics

At our 03/24/2009 meeting:

David D. McLaughlin will be talking about Backup Strategies from the simple (copying a folder in the finder) to complex (Internet based and Small Business).

Ray Bowler will discuss the use of TIme Machine and Time Capsule under Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard.

Tags: Backups, 10.5

There will be a chance to win a MacWorld door prize at the 02/2009 Meeting on iPhone/iPod Touch Apps.

                 

Tags: Door Prize

We will be talking about everyone's favorite iPhone & iTouch applications.

Also Learn:

• What is happening when your iPhone/iTouch is running slow, like it's out of memory, when you have 8 GB of free space
• Discover why restarting makes the devices seem faster and why certain game developers "recommend" a restart before playing
• How to sync certain 3rd party applications and why it MUST be done using a wireless connection.  And are they really secure?
• Why Apple does not allow 3rd party Apps to run in the background

Tags: iPhone, iPod Touch, Applications

We will be having a "Swap Meet" at the 01/27/2009 DMMUG meeting.

Please bring items of interest to other Mac users to trade or give away.

Post a general list of items you plan on bringing to the DMMUG Email List.

Tags: hardware, software

Meeting Location

Impromptu Studio has kindly agreed to host our meetings in the future.

300 Southwest Fifth Street
Suite 220
Des Moines, Iowa 50309

Photoshop Elements Presentation Information

An on-line version of Holly's 10/28/2008 Photoshop Elements Presentation has been added to the site. You can also download a copy of her Handout.

Future Meetings

If anyone had ideas/sugestions for meeting topics in 2009, please post them to the List or send a note to one of the DMMUG Officers.

Tags: location, handout

Holly Welch will demonstrate the use of Photoshop Elements.

Our October 2008 meeting will be held at Impromptu Studio
Follow the link above for directions and a map.

Meeting topics for September & October 2008:

09/23/2008 "Scanning Tips" - Bailey Ford
10/28/2008 "Photoshop Elements" - Holly Welch

Here are the meeting topics for the next 3 months:

06/24/2008 "Apple Email & Email Tools" - Ray Bowler & David D. McLaughlin
07/22/2008 "Photoshop Lightroom & iPhoto" - Holly Welch
08/26/2008 "Website Creation: Design Tools, part 1" - David D. McLaughlin

Tags: email, photography, Website design

I have created a list of the software we talked about at the 04/22/2008 meeting on Shareware and Freeware.

You can find it here.

Tags: software

The topic for our 04/22/2008 meeting will be "Shareware/Freeware".

Bring a list of your favorite software to share.

Tags: software

The meeting next Tuesday, 02/26/2008 7 PM, will be an open forum to answer people's questions and provide enlightenment and encouragement. I'd like to talk about Leopard and Time Machine. Others no doubt will have security ideas to share, backing up strategies, networking ideas. Read More...