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2 Sept. - Pizza Party - Monthly Meeting

SMMUG Event
Sep 2 2010 - 6:00pm
Sep 2 2010 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-6

Pizza Party pizza Come join us the first Thursday of September for pizza and networking.  Ask anybody any question.  We may have a brief panel of experts.  This will be a welcome back from summer, and "so glad it is cooler outside" party.  The yearly pizza party is becoming a happy annual tradition.  And did I mention the pizza is free to members and guests?  Hope to see you there.

Also, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of SMMUG.  Mark G. says he thinks he can come up with a cake.   Hmmm - pizza and cake.  Life is good!

September 2010 Newsletter

Newsletter

Here's the September 2010 SMMUG newsletter! This issue includes:

"Apple Donates MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code to Museum"
Club News
Joy of tech
Reviews:
BoinxTV
Portrait Professional
More

Click the link below to read it (Or Option-click on the link to download it)


9-10 NL final.pdf (1.11 MB)

BoinxTV

reviews

BoinxTV .pdf (388.94 KB)

 
In days-gone-by if you wanted to broadcast professional looking video interviews on the TV or Stream to the internet, you had to fork out big bucks for equipment and software. This ability was out of the reach of the average person. But now with BoinxTV, a computer, and a DV video recorder anyone can have their own TV studio and create professional looking videos

Portrait Professional

reviews

Portrait Professional .pdf (413.5 KB)

 
Have you noticed that models or important people in photographs often-times look a lot better in print versus seeing them in person? This is usually attributed to airbrushing touch up done on the pictures before printing them. Now, the average person can do the same thing with his/ her photographs using Portrait Professional.

Elasty HD - Review for August 2010

reviews

Elasty review.pdf (255.77 KB)

 
If you are a professional or an avid amateur film maker, you probably own high-end editing software like Apple’s Final Cut Studio. But if you are a hobbiest who makes the occasional movie, you probably don’t want to spend the big bucks for editing or special effects software. Now with iMovie and the Elasty HD software you can have the next best thing for a reasonable price. What is Elasty HD? It is a program that lets you manipulate your movie in quite a few different ways...

iStopMotion 2 - Review for July 2010

reviews

iStopMotion 2.pdf (183.71 KB)

 
...Fortunately, there are ways for budding film-makers (children, college students, etc.) to make their own stop-motion animations and at a fraction of the cost that the big- time producers pay for their stop-motion animations. I am referring to the iStopMotion program from Boinx Software....

Saturday Mac OS X SIG

SMMUG Event
Sep 11 2010 - 12:00pm
Sep 11 2010 - 2:00pm
Etc/GMT-6

At 12:00 noon, Mike Marus will host the normal open ended Q&A on all things related to Mac OS X. Have an iPhone? Want to create ringtones for it? Come to the OS X SIG and learn how to use the music on your Mac to make your own ringtones. Bring your questions and/or any tips and tricks you have found helpful in your use of Mac OS X.

Saturday Mac Users SIG

SMMUG Event
Sep 11 2010 - 10:00am
Sep 11 2010 - 12:00pm
Etc/GMT-6

The 10:00 AM Saturday Mac Users SIG Agenda will feature the normal emphasis on all things related to digital photography. Art Post has loaned us a DVD that provides a wide range of tips on digital photography. It will be used as a focal point of our discussion of why good photographers select their own camera settings rather than relying on the automatic settings of their cameras. Bring your questions, tips and tricks and samples of your work or favorite tools used in digital photography.

Morph Age - Review for June 2010

reviews

Morph Age.pdf (475.42 KB)

MorphMorph Age is a program that will Morph images together - similar to the morphing faces in Michael Jackson’s Black and White video. In addition, Morph Age will Warp (deform) a single image - treating it like clay that can be pushed and pulled to distort its image. The resulting morph/warp can be saved as a still image or as a QuickTime movie. BTW: The Pro version will also let you morph between two QuickTime movies.

Prizmo - Review for May 2010

reviews

Prizmo.pdf (265.01 KB)

Prizmo logoAre there times when you wish you owned a scanner? Do you wonder; “I only need to scan something once in a while-is it worth buying a scanner?”If the answer is “NO”, but you do have a digital camera-you can have the next best thing. Prizmo is a software package that turns your digital camera into a scanner