January 26, 2006
Meeting Wrapup January 26
We had a decent turnout today, for our first meeting of the year 2006. Jason, our faculty sponsor, was iSighted in and we tried out a bunch of app demos. Before I forget, make sure you subscribe to our iCal at http://ntaug.org/cal/North%20Texas%20Apple%20User%20Group.ics by url. Open iCal, go to Calendar->Subscribe, and paste in the url to make sure you get the latest updates. If you just download the calendar, you’ll get a snapshot as it exists right now.
Here are the things we discussed today:
- Coconut Battery to see how far your laptop battery has degraded over time (mine’s at 38% after two years)
- MenuMeters – a little app that adds an icon to the menu bar that can graph useful things like network usage or cpu usage.
- PowerBoost, an app that lets G4 Macs host a multi-way video chat. Kinda works, but be sure to close other apps, especially any running h264 videos.
- Ray’s “Wake me Up” script for use with iCal, which we haven’t gotten online yet.
Photos are also up at ntaug.org/photos/v/20060126-meeting/ - if you have any photos you’d like to add, shoot me an email at tim@timhatch.com and we’ll get you set up with an account for Gallery.
Our next meeting will be Thursday, February 9.
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