Apple have announced a special DVD containing a review/demo copy of both iLife ’09 and iWork ’09 for Apple User Groups. Continue reading »

Up on the Niche site, in a folder currently called ‘2009xx-SXSW Showcasing Artists’ there are FOUR DVD Images, containing music files from the 2005 through to 2008 SXSW Festivals

SXSW is one of the largest music festivals in the United States, with more than 1,400 performers playing dozens of venues around Austin, Texas over four days, in March.  They also offers a free musical sampler each year, normally distributed through BitTorrent – the DVDs mentioned above are from the previous years Bittorrent files. Continue reading »

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 »

Hi All,
I’ve finally had a chance to summarize the main points from the DotM survey… thank you to all of those who responded… particularly those groups that are not currently participating in the Disc of the Month project. Continue reading »

The February Disc of the Month is actually a TWO CD Set entitled ‘Cards, Boards & Dice’

Way back in May 2007, I produced Card Deck, the original Disc that started the entire Disc of the Month project and it has proven to be a reasonable and constant seller for them, so I expect that this vastly enhanced set of card games plus some good old fashioned board and dice games will be just as popular. Continue reading »

The January Disc of the Month, Kid’s Time, is now available for downloading from the Niche FTP site, along with all the support files.

I know the January print issue of Australian Macworld arrived very early this month, so many people have already seen the summary listing of Kid’s Time published in there and the interest generated already has been quite positive. The About Kid’s Time Flyer contains a more detailed description of each application, so hopefully that’ll generate even more interest for your members. Continue reading »

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 »

It’s been almost a year now that the Disc of the Month project has been running and I’d love some feedback from **ALL** Australian Usergroups, even those that have not participated in the DotM project.

Please spend a few minutes to respond… and be brutally honest with your responses… especially, in areas you think the project can be improved for all MUGs Continue reading »

Artist’s Palette – A collection of tools for budding and professional Artist’s, Graphic Designers and Photographers. Continue reading »

There has been recent discussions with a couple of groups looking for ideas for Raffle Prizes to help raise a few extra dollars, so here is the first installment of vendors who are willing to assist MUGs. Continue reading »

I am pleased to announce a new opportunity for Australian MUGs to obtain copies of software for review and then extra copies for use in your raffles or as door prizes.

The first partner is NCH Software and they have offered Australian MUGs a review copy of Switch Plus, their Audio File Conversion package for Mac OS X (and Windows & Linux) to review in your MUGs email newsletter, magazine or website. Continue reading »

Please pass this message on to your Magazine and Newsletter Editors…

Recent discussions with a couple of MUG Leaders has lead to the idea of establishing a Newsletter Exchange program between Australian Mac User Groups to help share ideas for events, meetings, articles etc and I think this is a great idea as it can also help foster greater communication between MUGs. Continue reading »

There are now TWO Disc of the Month titles for release in November – Festive Fun II & Alternative Office.

Festive Fun Volume II

The first disc is the DVD I advised you was coming, and it is called Festive Fun Volume II

“Where is Festive Fun Volume 1?” I hear many of you ask… well it was released as a CD called AUSOM Festive Fun last November and that content has been merged into the Festive Fun II DVD, so there are now;

• 3000+ pieces of Christmas Clip Art
• 990+ pieces of Christmas Music and Videos
• 880+ Christmas Card & Gift Tags
• 600+ Christmas Activities
• 300+ Christmas Fonts
• 35+ Christmas Applications
• 30+ Christmas Stories

All on a single DVD… which has an RRP of $15. Continue reading »