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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October 28, 2005

October 27, 2005 Wrapup

Meeting Report, October 27

The kickoff meeting started off with a couple demos of new Apple software, pending Vonn’s arrival, who was stuck in traffic. First, Front Row is pretty cool though it ran slowly on all the laptops we tried it on (probably because it’s designed for a G5, go figure). Photo Booth gets a very similar review, it’s pretty cool but hogs CPU to do its effects on the video.

Vonn broght one of the new (5G?) iPods to pass around, and we’re all quite impressed. We had trouble getting video-out working but that was due to not having it enabled in the options (a task which requires many clicks).

Pictures are up in the photos section.

Our next regular meeting will be after the holidays, with lots of new goings-on!

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