Meetings are usually held in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road Oxford OX1 3RH. It's on the corner of Keble Road and St Giles ... occasionally we hold meetings in other venues – make sure you check the email list and web site before each meeting.”
Meetings now include a raffle – get your ticket at the beginning, and don't forget to listen out for the draw. Previous prizes have included Flash memory sticks and iPod accessories. There is now a £2 entry fee for meetings: this helps to cover the cost of the venue, and – more importantly – the prize you might win!”
iWork 08 a look at the component parts: Keynote for making great presentations, Pages for assembling words and pictures and the new Numbers for manipulating figures
20 May
OxMUG Committee meeting
10 June
We have a great door prize this month, thanks to Roxio a copy of the latest generation of Toast Titanium 9. We will have a short presentation and Q&A of the major new features, prior to the main topic.
Information management – Burning CDs, using memory sticks (incl U3 sticks), storing your information and saving data fragments using Evernote, and we take a look at Delicious Library winner of the prestigious Apple Design Award at WWDC 2007 for an Alpha release of the just released version 2, for which everyone was eagerly waiting.
8 July
Putting your pictures on the web, PhotoShop and iView Media Pro
19 August
iPunting – our regular summer punting social from Bardwell Boathouse up the river Cherwell to the Victoria Arms in Marston.
9 September
Apple Automator: a look at the clever things you can do, including FInder integration, with Automator Actions and more.
16 September
OxMUG Committee meeting
14 October
Mobile You: iPods, iPhones, other gadgets, syncing and Missing Sync
11 November
Databases & the web:We’ll be looking at MySQL Lite on your Mac, leading to Bento the relatively new consumer database from Filemaker. Then onto discussing the "big" databases large corporations use and finally a look at Filemaker itself.
18 November
OxMUG Committee meeting
9 December
The OxMUG AGM – followed by the Christmas social, we return to the Al Shami Lebanese restaurant by popular demand
2009 preview
As a taster, here's a list some exciting OxMUG evenings coming-up for the darkest days of the year to enlighten you all:
13 January: 12 New Year’s Resolutions: and a big welcome to users new to the Mac
10 February: Macworld Expo SF round-up and hardware upgrading, we'll be adding additional memory and a new hard disk to a Mac Mini.
10 March: Digital Home – time-shift TV on your Mac and back to your TV, we'll look at Elgato’s Eye TV and the Apple TV
14 April: Backup: looking a developments sine the introduction of TimeMachine
We do have lots of other exciting meeting topics coming, but if you have burning desire for something in particualr to be covered or have a burning desire to present a topic yourself, please get in touch.
Click on the detail above to see the minutes of previous meetings. You can view the calendar at www.oxmug.org/iCal/ or subscribe to it.
To subscribe to the OxMUG calendar, open iCal, create a new calendar name it OxMUG, copy the following link:
Then with the new calendar highlighted go to the File menu, select Subscribe and paste the link into the Calendar URL box, select a refresh period and click Subscribe.
The usual start time 19:30, please make sure you arrive in good time as the building is secure and has controlled access. There is a half-hour pre-meeting from 19:00 for general discussion problem solving and Apple/Mac chat. Following the meeting some adjourn for more Mac and other talk.
