Steve Zalot WOWS PACS- Oct 16, 2010

Senior Systems Engineer for Apple, Steve Zalot WOW'd the audiance on Saturday with the latest and greatest Apple technologies.
From Nano, to iPod Touch, iPhone, and more, and through the latest Apple iOS4 operating systems, Steve answered Questions and provided an excellent overview.

Super Job!

Memo/DOC App for iPhone/Touch

I was looking for a simple Memo/DOC App similar to that found on my old Palm IIIxe PDA. The standard “Notes App”, which comes with the iPhone/Touch is OK, but lacks some of the features of my Palm.

I downloaded the following freebies from the Apps Store:
NoteStuff Lite
Notes n More
AyeNotes
Password Notes
Safe Note

Some of these were too complex for my purposes, some did not provide adequate instructions. Of the ones I tried, I chose “Safe Note”. The application prides itself on its simplicity and ease of use. It also employs variable length fields so the user can enter anything he likes. Other programs have fixed length fields and are limited to “template-like” entries.

I also appreciated the fact that the data files are password protected. And that each file can be given a real title, and not just listed with the first few lines of its text as a pseudo-title.

Import/export of files from a desktop machine to Safe Note can be accomplished with email and the copy/paste capabilities of the iPhone/Touch.

Please let me know if others have a favorite Memo App that I haven’t tried yet.

Join Steve Zalot on Saturday, May 15th

As a Senior Systems Engineer for Apple, Steve Zalot will be there Saturday to
thrill and chill us with the new Apple technologies.
Questions will be asked and answered.
Learn about the iPad and other goodies
Insights will be opening doors to new techniques.
Enjoyment for one and all.
Join us.

Ben Romney's April 17, 2010 Meeting Presentation Tips & Info

Have you ever lost your iTunes Library or portions of the media stored on you iPod device [iPod, iTouch, iPhone]?

Apple's iTunes is a great application of getting your media from your computer to your device, but if you need to pull that data back to your computer and into iTunes you are out of luck!

Out of luck unless you have Kennettnet's Music Rescue. This application, recently rated as one of the best iPod Recovery apps by MacWorld, does so many tasks helping you to get your media off the iPod back onto your computer.

What does it do? Music Rescue can:

• Copies media from an iPod, iTouch or iPhone to your computer [Mac or Win]
• Compares iPod contents to local iTunes library
• Simple recovery of all media--music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc. on your iPod

In addition to being a powerful easy to use application that gets the job done, it has the look and feel of well designed Mac application. The author has an active support site and provides video tutorials to walk you through all of Music Rescue's features and capabilities covering:

• installation,
• getting started,
• advanced features,
• quick recovery feature,
• recovering a single playlist, and
• keeping different iTune player devices/libraries in sync.

Music Rescue easily helped me recover several thousand music files that iTunes somehow lost during upgrades or moving the library.

Available for purchase, you can download a trial version to try before you buy.

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Want to be able to create your own Time Lapse Movie?

Gawker

An application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam or your iSight. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with up to four locations side-by-side. This is an excellent shareware program that enables you to do what professionals do at a much higher cost and special equipment. The program's website provides several examples of the different types of time lapsed movies you can create--it's only up to your imagination. You can download the program to try for yourself.

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This Saturday....Dave Marra from Apple

"Known for his dynamic delivery style and exciting demos, Dave Marra has conducted thousands of technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for schools, Mac and PC user groups, businesses and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. Certified as both an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and an Apple Certified Systems Administrator, his specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies, accessibility and Mac/PC integration."


Dave will talk with the mac interest group (9-12) and then present the main meeting at noon on the ma in a cross platform world.
Come join us.