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!
9 January
Switchers for recent converts to Apple Mac plus hopefully a round-up from Macworld San Francisco
Keeping in touch Telephony etc Skype & other ways to communicate with your Mac. The door prize tonight will be an IPEVO Skype USB phone value about £30.
£10 apps we look at the best and essential apps for under about £10 and with some of the best even free
8 May
Security & backup what you need to do to secure your data and email
12 June Location change, we are returning to the Physics Lab in Keble Road, see below
Live [almost] from the WWDC and a special report from Ben, our on the spot correspondent latest announcements probably the final shipping announcements for the Leopard feature set and iLife/iWork apps. As well as of course the iPhone final launch which delayed the Leopard launch. After Ben's report and Job's presentation there will be an open discussion.
10 July
Location change, we are returning to the Physics Lab in Keble Road, see below
Virtualisation a close look at running other operating systems on your Intel Mac. Bootcamp or Parallels allow you to have other operating systems installed, Linus, BSD, or Windows. You may find after leaving the Microsoft camp that there is no equivalent application on the Mac all is not lost you can run XP or Vista and therefore your favorite app.
Saturday 21 July
Cancelled in memory of Dr Hιlθne La Rue , who tragically died after a very short illness. Summer BBQ the return of our summer social.
14 August
iPunt our annual punting trip along the river Cherwell details
11 September
General meeting meet outside The Denys Wilkinson Building, at the usual time. Then we'll adjourn to the Lamb & Flag in St Giles for a general Q&A.
9 October
Problem solving what you should take with you when you're mobile to get out of a fix, software and hardware recommendations.
There will also be an opportunity to "show and tell" your best, most interesting, or latest software or hardware.
There will be an extra special door prize tonight of a copy of either iLife '08 or iWork '08 for the lucky winner of the draw.
Since Tiger (29 April 2005) Leopard has been in production that's over two and a half years delayed due to the launch of the iPhone, but now it's here or should be by the time of the meeting.
Apple say 300+ new features so what are they and what's in it for you, what's important? Then why not come along and we'll attempt to answer all your questions and hopefully reveal everything as well as to show you what it contains.
11 December
AGM with prize draw, followed by a meal ... which will be at Al Shami, it will cost £15 each plus drinks, see the mailing list for details if you'd like to join us.
2008 preview
In January we will be looking at the Omni range of apps
Call back here for full details of the upcoming meetings after the AGM in December.
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.
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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.
Meetings are held at we are returning to the Nuclear Physics Lab in Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH [www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=451205&Y=207018&A=Y&Z=1]
