Australian Macworld
Hi All,
As you will probably be aware, Australian Macworld (AMW) has been undergoing some changes in recent months, starting with a new Editor, Chris Oaten.
Australian Apple User Groups have had a great relationship with Australian Macworld over the last few years and Chris plans to continue developing that relationship, which is great to hear. Continue reading »
Free 10 Week Photoshop Course
The following came from the MacTalk Hunter MUG mailing list and I thought everyone else may be interested in sharing this with your own members…
CreativeTechs is offering a free, 10-week, worldwide, Photoshop course. Although the first couple are over the next one – Selections is on tomorrow morning (Friday March 12, at 6AM – Sydney, Melbourne) Continue reading »
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Anyone able to find good homes for these machines… they would make great machines for basic email and word processing.
From memory, the 7200s had Ethernet built-in, so they would be easy to hook up to a network and shared internet connection. Continue reading »
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Queensland groups may be interested to know about the Gold Cost Apple Users Group project for older Macs…for more details contact Cherie at awsemflm – at – bigpond.net.au
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Further to recent discussions, over on the AppleUsers-Discuss Mailing, about donating older Macs to worthy causes, one has caught my eye.
A friend of mine, Daniel Kadane, is gathering older Macs (G3 and above) for re-furbishing and distribution to victims of the Victoria Bushfires.
He has obtained the support of the St Vincent De Paul’s Society to help distribute the re-furbished machines, but first he is need of donations of older surplus machines and software.
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Hi All,
Over the last couple of years, many of you have written to me suggesting a number of possible ideas and projects and until now many of them haven’t been practical for me to implement.
Now that I have began a new chapter in my life with the move to Sydney, I have considerably more time and resources to been investigating and actually implementing some of your ideas.
So here are some comments on various projects – and at the end there are some QUESTIONS I’d like ALL MUGs to answer – they should only take a minute (reading the email will take a bit longer – I hadn’t meant this one to become so long – it was just supposed to be a quick heads up 😉 Continue reading »
Presentation Zen Cover
Chuck Joiner over at The MUG Center has also highlighted the following session by Garr;
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The following is an extract from the latest Peachpit Newsletter… I STRONGLY recommend all Australian User Group Leaders and Presenters register for this FREE Webcast, which will be held on Tuesday, December 16 at 9:00am Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
I’ve read the book itself and ALL presenters should read it, if not own their own copy!!!
To be able to hear directly from Garr is a great opportunity, particularly at a reasonable time for us here in Australia… and it certainly cheaper than flying to the US to hear Garr speak (although, by all accounts, that would be money well worth spending) Continue reading »
Ultimate Collection of Open Source Software for Mac OS X v2.0 Disc Label
The Ultimate Collection of Open Source Software for Mac OS X v2.0 CD has now been compiled and can be downloaded from . The standard User ID and password you use to access the Disc of the Moth files applies – if you need a reminder of what these are, let me know.
There are a couple of differences with the support files for the UCoOSS CD compared to a normal Disc of the Month title; Continue reading »
Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day 2008 will be held on 20 September – It is a celebration of free and open source software and the community behind it.
This FREE event is held 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 »
Australian Macworld
I just received from message Liana, the marketing manager over at Australian Macworld and I thought Australian Apple User Groups maybe interested in getting together to sponsor one of the sections, perhaps First Steps, under an umbrella of “Apple User Groups” similar to the “Applecentre ads” that the now ‘Premium Apple Resellers’ used to run in Australian Macworld
ie a unified ad promoting the benefits of User Groups and then listing the participating groups.
If you are interested in participating in such a marketing opportunity, let me know asap.
Australian Macworld
Hi All,
Can you ALL please check the April dates in the Australian Macworld Events Calendar at are correct. If there are any corrections or additions, please let me know ASAP, as these will be used as the basis for the print edition, which I’ll be submitting tomorrow night (March 3rd)
Have you seen the “Why be a MUG?” blog entry?
It is the beginning of a series of monthly blog entries I’ll be writing for the Australian Macworld website. If there are events, ideas or anything relating to Apple Macintosh User Groups you’d like featured or mentioned, just let me know. My blog will normally be published on the 3rd or 4th Monday of each month. Continue reading »
Meeting Date Request
Hi All,
It’s been great to see the enthusiastic response to the new online Australian Macworld Calendar
A number of MUGs have been very keen and recently supplied me with a listing of either all their meeting dates for 2008, or the next 3 or 6 months worth. Continue reading »
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Hi All,
A suggestion has arisen from my recent email regarding “Publicity Opportunities for MUGs” that all Australian MUGs look at taking a full page advertisement out in various publications including;
that promotes the benefits of joining a Macintosh User Group and how to find your local one. Continue reading »
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