Meetings
Meetings are usually held in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road Oxford OX1 3RH. It's on the corner of Keble Road and Banbury Road at the top of St Giles ... occasionally we hold meetings in other venues – please be sure you check the email list and web site before each meeting.
Meetings usually include a raffle – get your ticket at the beginning, and listen out for the draw. Previous prizes have included Software, Flash memory sticks and iPod accessories. There is a £2 entry fee for meetings: this helps to cover the cost of the venue, and – more importantly – the prize you might win!
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.
13 January |
12 New Year’s Resolutions: and a big welcome to users new to the Mac |
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10 February |
Hardware upgrading, we'll be adding additional memory and a new hard disk to a PPC and Intel Mac Mini. and Macworld Expo SF round-up with a quick look at the new iLife and iWork 09 apps. |
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17 February |
OxMUG Committee meeting |
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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 |
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14 April |
Backup: looking a developments since the introduction of TimeMachine |
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12 May |
Enhancing PhotoShop with oneOne Plug in Suite A great presentation from Bob Campbell of onOne Software. He'll be showing the selected applications from their Plug in suite. Also a look at their suite of image manipulations for iPhoto. |
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19 May |
OxMUG Committee meeting |
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9 June |
News of Snow Leopard and the new iPhone OS almost live from WWDC To quote Apple: "The groundbreaking innovations of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone OS offer two revolutionary development platforms for developers and IT professionals. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the only place you can receive technical information on these sophisticated platforms from the engineers who created them. Bring your code to the labs and work one-to-one with Apple engineers, applying development methods and best-practices you gain from sessions to enhance your application." We will also have: Round table discussion will cover what Graham has said and other exciting developments since his recording, expanding on them. Chaired by Paul, Ross and other OxMUG members Neil Clifford will talk about the Leopard Firewall and hopefully give some easy to use pointers, maybe also providing a set of "bottled" rules that any Leopard user can pour into their Firewall. Ben Jupp one of our security professionals will talk through Anti-virus and related infection subjects relevant to all Mac users and hopefully give some “ABC” instructional guidelines and some recommendations to which AV app to use. Round-up with general Q&A |
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14 July |
Programme to be confirmed |
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11 August |
iPunting – our regular summer punting social from Bardwell Boathouse up the river Cherwell to the Victoria Arms in Marston. See the OxMUG members mailing list for details |
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8 September |
Joe Billings of Softpress Systems will be presenting all the latest developments in Freeway, their Mac-only web design application. Year after year, the Freeway family of Web design software has been lauded by magazine readers and editors alike. Softpress www.softpress.com Important note about parking: the St Giles Fair will be in full-swing consequently parking in Keble Road will be suspended , it's also likely all forms of travel will take longer than usual. |
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15 September |
OxMUG Committee meeting |
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13 October |
The OxMUG technical team will be taking a close look at the new and faster Snow Leopard, now that it has been out for some weeks it's time to reflect on what it has to offer. Don't miss out on what you might have missed about the new and hidden productivity features. |
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10 November |
A users guide through Social Networking with apps on your Mac, iPhone and iPod Touch, like Twitter, Face Book, Linked-in,Spotify, MySpace, LastFM Pandora, Friends Reunited etc, your guides for tonight's extravaganza will be Amanda (once in the top ten Twitter correspondents) and others |
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17 November |
OxMUG Committee meeting |
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8 December |
The OxMUG AGM – followed a prize draw worth more than £100 – then by the Christmas social, at Al-Andalus, Little Clarendon Street, Oxford. See the OxMUG email list for more information. |
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Meetings are held at the Denys Wilkinson Building in Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH Google map |
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Mac Help Tips
Thanks to Peachpit press for these excerpts, click the headings below
Organise Your Mac Files with Colour
Use the Label feature in contextual menus (for example, when burning a disc or copying a file) to colour-code file icons. Later, you can use Spotlight to search for files with particular label colours; perhaps red for tax files, blue for business documents, and so on.
Excerpted from The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition by Robin Williams
Improve Snow Leopard Installation Performance on Your MacBook Air
For better performance when installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your MacBook Air, try this technique. While you install Snow Leopard, connect both the MacBook Air and the computer hosting the remote disc via Ethernet, instead of via AirPort wireless networking.
Excerpted from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson
Use Real Accent Marks
You can type accent marks on the Mac, as in résumé and piñata. It's easy to remember that you use the Option key, and the accents are hiding beneath the keyboard characters that would usually be under them. For example, the acute accent over the e (é) is Option e; the tilde over the n (ñ) is Option n.
Excerpted from The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition by Robin Williams
