As part of our program to make the AppleUsers Spotlight more readily accessible to a wider audience, you can now follow all the latest news from AppleUsers.org on Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading »

CreativeTech have announced their “Winter 2010″ calender of free online classes, along with a series of downloadable flyers for you to spread the news with your friends and colleagues. Continue reading »

The Australian Broadband Survey, run by Whirlpool.net.au, is now open, so consumers can once again have their say about the state of broadband in Australia.

AppleUsers.org recommends all users of broadband in Australia spends the ten or so minutes required to complete the survey. Continue reading »

MacTheMag, the new venture by Matthew Powell, former editor of Australian Macworld, recently launched the digital magazine portion of the project. Continue reading »

Software Freedom Day 2009 will be held on Saturday September 19th – It is a celebration of free and open source software and the community behind it.

This FREE event is held “simultaneously” around the world and will showcase the best that the free and open source software (FOSS) community has to offer, including live demonstrations of; Continue reading »

The Australian Government, through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) have $21 million available for the Volunteer Grants 2009 scheme and Australian Apple User Groups should be eligible to apply. Continue reading »

The National Library of Australia have approached AppleUsers.org seeking permission to include the AppleUsers Spotlight magazine in their PANDORA Archive and we have just granted them permission. Continue reading »

Nicholas Pyers, the Founder & Publisher of AppleUsers.org talks to Chuck Joiner on the MacVoices Podcast. Continue reading »

Creativetechs are at it again… this time they are offering a Free 4-Week Digital Photography Course, commencing July 16th (Australian time).

This special course is taught by photographer John Greengo from the PBS series Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge. Continue reading »

A number of the ACT Apple User Group members have been corresponding with the Australian Taxation Office to find out when a Mac compatible version of e-tax will be made available.

e-tax is a downloadable product used for completing your tax return on a home PC and forwarding it securely electronically into the ATO. e-tax is only available for the Windows platform. For a number of years they have been promising to produce a version for other operating systems, but have failed to deliver. Continue reading »

Learn more for less!

Take Control Books normally offer Apple User Groups a 30% discount off their range, but until July 7, 2009 they are having a 50%-off sale on all Take Control ebooks and Macworld Superguides, so you can expand your library with highly practical ebooks about Macs, Mac OS X, iLife ’09, AirPort networking, and much more. Continue reading »

The first Keynote Address at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association (ASCCA) will be about Apple and their products. The Keynote will given by a representative from Next Byte. Continue reading »

On June 9th, 2009, Australian Time, Apple Inc launched their World Wide Developers Conference for 2009 with a Keynote Address, lead by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.

The video of the WWDC 2009 Keynote address is now available as a QuickTime Stream, in both standard and High Definition formats, plus it can be downloaded as a Podcast.

Australian Apple Macintosh User Groups may wish to consider downloading the Podcast version, which weighs in at a hefty 1.3GB file and showing excerpts at a forthcoming meeting. Continue reading »

Starting in June 2009, Apple Retail Stores in Australia will conduct free workshops, during school holidays, called “Apple Camp” for children aged 8 years to 12 years old. Continue reading »