Stellar’s new Mac-Drive Tool Box is revolutionary software to enhance performance of your Mac system. Mac-Drive Tool Box is a set of more than 12 utilities that help you maintain, manage and speed up your Mac System.

The Apple User Group Advisory Board have arranged for Apple User Groups leaders to obtain a fully licensed and functional copy of Mac-Drive Tool Box, free of charge. Continue reading »

Dick Smith has been around a long time. Over 40 years in fact! Throughout the years the brand and the product selection has grown and changed with the times.

Dick Smith is now a leading technology retailer of computers, GPS, mobile phones, gaming, TVs, home entertainment systems and more. Continue reading »

Includes over forty full novels including, the ten Honor Harrington novels, 4 Honor Harrington Anthologies, 3 Bahzell books, 3 Dahak books, 4 Empire of Man books, 5 stand-alone novels, 4 Starfire novels in several formats, all unencrypted, including ePub, which can be read using iBooks (or other book readers) on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Continue reading »

Even larger then our previous issue, with an incredible 88 pages, the October/November 2010 AppleUsers Spotlight 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 »

User Group Leaders often wonder how to approach organisations to find potential presenters for their meetings.

When I’ve written to individuals or organisations to present at User Groups that I have been involved with in the past I’ve always included the same basic details; Continue reading »

In October Apple introduced iLife ’11, featuring major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The Apple User Group Advisory Board would love for user groups to review iLife ‘11 in their newsletters and demo it at their meetings. Continue reading »

Welcome to the October/November 2010 AppleUsers Spotlight Contest. There are the usual bunch of software packages, physical books, ebooks and Squiz cards to win. Plus we have a Subscriber Only draw for Smile Software’s PDFPen 5. Continue reading »

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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