Marsee from O’Reilly asks User Group Leaders what they do when a scheduled speaker for a meeting cancels at the last minute and various people share how they cope. Continue reading »

Chuck Joiner, of The MUG Center, joins Christopher Breen on the Macworld Podcast #191 to discuss the state of Mac User Groups. Continue reading »

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 »

March 2010’s Disc of the Month is called “Widgets, Widgets and more Widgets!” and it is now available for leaders of Australian Apple User Groups to download. Continue reading »

The February 2010 issue of the AppleUsers Spotlight is now available for downloading.

Our main feature articles cover the recent iPad announcement, but we still have plenty of other interesting news as well. Continue reading »

Welcome to the first AppleUsers Spotlight Contest for 2010.

There are usual bunch of software packages, physical books, ebooks and squiz cards to win.
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February 2010’s Disc of the month is called “Web Developer Deluxe” and contains a collection of tools to help you easily create & maintain your own web sites! Continue reading »

Peachpit have provided User Groups with a unique opportunity to provide our members with high-quality articles and video instruction from Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman’s critically acclaimed Peachpit book, Video Made on a Mac: Production and Postproduction using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite absolutely free.

Here is the first extract… Continue reading »

The AppleUsers.org Disc of the Month project has been running for a couple of years now and each year we continue to refine the process and 2010 will see a couple of minor changes. Continue reading »

After much discussion in editorial meetings and based on feedback from Australian Apple User Groups leaders and readers of the AppleUsers Spotlight, we have decided to make some major changes to the way the Spotlight is published and distributed.

These changes will commence as of Issue 6 aka the “February 2010” issue. 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 »

Welcome to the new year and new decade… and yes, it is time yet again for Australian Apple User Groups to submit their February 2010 Meeting Dates and Details! 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 »

The Bellarine Mac User Group, BMUG, is a growing and vibrant Mac group based on the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong in Victoria, is known all over for its surprisingly comprehensive range of Apple manuals and they are proud to share their latest volume, The BMUG Troubleshooting Guide, with Apple User Groups in Australia and around the world.

The BMUG Troubleshooting Guide is intended as the first place Mac users should turn too to help self-diagnose many common problems that occur on Macs and how to take steps to prevent problems from occurring. Continue reading »