The Australian Apple Store has the entire product range from iPod classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacPro, iMac, Mac Mini and the new Apple TV.

Purchasers also get free shipping to Australia – most products are dispatched within 24 hours. Continue reading »

Blue Dog Posters is Australia’s largest online poster shop.

From the latest and greatest to the bizarre and obscure, choose from over 7000 posters and prints. Continue reading »

One in five Australians are now researching their family history online making it one of Australia’s top 10 uses of the Internet.

Ancestry.com.au, Australia’s leading family history website, offers members access to 930 million searchable Australian and UK family history records.

Launched in 2006, Ancestry’s historical record collection reflects Australia’s multicultural heritage and enables members to explore their family’s history using Australian and international records including the convict and free settler lists, electoral rolls, passenger lists, English, Welsh and Scottish censuses, birth, marriage and death records as well as user-contributed family trees, and by connecting to millions of other members making their own discoveries. Continue reading »

3 are the leaders in 3G with over 6 million customers in Australia who know first hand just how good it is to be 3.

The $29 and $49 cap plans are outstanding value – the $29 cap plan virtually gives customers a phone and is very popular, particularly in major cities. Continue reading »

Since posting the “Demonstrating iLife ’11 to Your User Group” article, we’ve had a couple of requests for other presentation ideas – one asking how to find new topics for an hour time slot and another on how to hold an audience’s attention during a 5-10 minute gap in their meetings… and we’ve come up with the same answer for both queries…

Utilise the free “Quick Tips” and “Found Out How” podcasts from Apple! Continue reading »

After the announcement of iLife ’11 at the recent ‘Back to the Mac’ Special Media Event by Apple on October 20th, there has been a lot of interest in the updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband — So it may be worth User Groups looking at demonstrating the new features to their members at their next meeting.

Fortunately, The Apple Sales Web site has some great resources ready for your group’s Apple Ambassador to download and give a professional presentation and demonstration. Continue reading »

Turn your Mac in to an all round Publishing House, with all the tools you need to generate your own;

• Greeting Cards
• Envelopes & Labels
• Flyers & Newsletters
• Calendars & Scrapbooks
• Banners, Signs & Posters
• CD & DVD Labels, Covers & Inserts

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Festive Celebrations is a DVD that merges two previous titles, Festive Fun II and Celebrations Galore, which were full of Holiday focused clipart, images, fonts, greeting cards, colouring books and more, on to a single DVD. Continue reading »

prMac is a web based service Press Release distribution service, specifically for Apple Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad related products and services.

AppleUsers.org now uses them to publish announcements about the latest issue of the AppleUsers Spotlight and we also use it to find out about new products and services that we can review and promote in the Spotlight.

Apple User Groups may also be interested in subscribing to prMac’s free services. Continue reading »

Mac OS X is definitely the very best operating system out there!!!!

But there are always a few little tweaks that can help enhance it, just that little bit more!

Here is a collection of over 60 utilities that help you tweak and enhance your system, as well as monitoring your actual system performance. Continue reading »

MacTalk Hunter, a small Apple User Group based in New South Wales, Australia, has solved a problem that many smaller groups face – How to provide a Book Library service to their members, without having to worry about physical storage of tons of books… Continue reading »

The August/September 2010 issue of the AppleUsers Spotlight is now available for downloading, free of charge, by any Apple User.

Our largest issue yet, with a massive 74 pages, is available in PDF format and can be read using Adobe Reader or Preview under Mac OS X, Adobe Reader for Windows and now in iBooks on the iPad, iPhone and iPad touch. Continue reading »

Welcome to the August/September AppleUsers Spotlight Contest. There are the usual bunch of software packages, physical books, ebooks and Squiz cards to win, plus some copies of Keyboard Maestro.
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September 2010′s Disc of the Month is a DVD that has been compiled with Software freedom Day in mind. Called “Free and Open Source Software for Mac OS X” it is a selection of some of the best, yet totally free, software that’s available for the Mac, collected together on a single DVD… plus some bonus videos! Continue reading »