Program Topic: Back to Mac Basics-Some things you should know


PTSLUG Monthly General Meeting
Thursday, January 8th, 2008, 7:00 PM at Tri-Area Community Center Chimacum
Free and open to the public



In the January general meeting we will look at a number of basic OS X operations and programs that all Mac users, new and more experienced, might want to know. Bob Snow will be the presenter. Some of the ideas to be covered include taking images off the web, when and how you should you repair permissions and verify the hard drive, setting your printer to do draft copies (saves ink), using tabs in your web browsers, using and making aliases and temporary folders, why you should add another administrator account in the System Preferences, and much more.

Update on Workshops (Special Interest Groups-SIGs) for Nov., Dec., Jan. and Feb.


Nov. 21 - Mac Programs Sig on Mac's Preferences, WSU, 7 PM, advance enrollment required

Nov 28 - Digital Media Sig cancelled. Too close to the holidays

Dec 19 - Mac Programs Sig, cancelled. Too close to the holidays

Dec 28 - Digita Media Sig Cancelled. Too close to the holidays

Jan 16 - Mac Programs SiG, presenter Bob Snow, topic: making and using smart folders, such as Smart Mailboxes in Mail, Smart Albums in iPhoto and Smart Playlists in iTunes. Space is limited so advance enrollment require, wait for an email announcement

Jan 23 - Digital Media Sig, presenter Gary Estes, topic making a personal published book from iPhoto

Feb 20 - Mac Programs Sig. When bad things happen to good computers. Presenter Bob Snow. Printer won't respond, Bluetooth or regular mouse won't work, having trouble connecting to the internet, computer running slowly, want to learn basic trouble shooting tips? These and other topics will be covered at this workshop.

Feb 27 -Digital Media Sig, presenter Michael Mc Kee, Introduction to Photoshop Elements, a continuation of Michael's initial presentation
 

Photography can be more than a technical hobby. It can change the way we see the world and offer opportunities for service. And you don't need the latest and greatest equipment to participate.

6 1/2 years ago Deja Webster suffered through the loss of her significant other.  She found that the world turned into a landscape of grays. Through photography she she began to see the world as a bright and colorful place again. She now works as a professional photographer and does excellent volunteer work at the Jefferson County Animal Shelter, photographing animals for placement ads in both the Leader and for PetFinder.com.  Because of her photographs, the shelter web site enjoys a very high visitor count and places animals into homes far outside of Jefferson County.

Deja is president of the Port Townsend Photography Club, a great resource for people wishing to share their love of photography and pick up some great tips. She will share information about the club during the meeting.

Thursday, Nov 13, 7:00

Tri Area Community Center, Chimacum

Free and open to the public

The November Mac Programs SIG will be All about Preferences, a workshop looking at both the Tiger (OS 10.4) and Leopard (OS 10.5). Presenter: Bob Snow. He will give you an overview the Mac's three types of preferences, the Finder preferences, individual application preferences and the System Preferences for the Mac Operating Systems 10.5 and 1-.4. Most of the presentation will focus on the System Preferences. Bob will give you an explanation and some demonstrations of how you can change the system preferences to fit your personality and needs. WSU’s computer have system 10.4 and hands-on work will be with those preferences, which are very similar to  those in OS 10.5. The new features of OS 10.5, such as Expose & Spaces and Time Machine will be covered as well. How to deal with individual program preferences (Safari, Mail, etc.) will also be covered.

Reservations are required for this class. RSVP to Francesca Drum: fdrum@olympus.net . Please specify: 1- Your full name, 2-  Whether you want a computer or laptop position, and 3- Please indicate if you are willing to share a computer. Couples/friends are encouraged to share a computer when space is limited.

The computer Lab has nine desktop computers and 4 laptop spaces, After those positions are filled, a waiting list will be started in case a vacancy occur. Paid-up members will be given first priority, then members of the public. If after receiving a confirmation, you are unable attend please let Francesca know as soon as possible so we can offer your space to someone else. Those who need to cancel and do not let us know 24 hours in advance will lose their priority in future workshops.

You you plan to bring your own laptop and want to use its power transformer you will need to bring your own extension cord.

As always, this workshop is free.

 

PTSUG is offering a free workshop on Adobe Photoshop Elements on 
Friday, October 24 at 7 PM, WSU Computer Lab, Port Hadlock. 

The October Digital Media Workshop (SIG) will be an introduction to Adobe’s new Photoshop Elements 6 presented by Michael McKee.

WSU installed Photoshop Elements 6 on their computers, so this will be a hands-on workshop. A free 30-day trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Macintosh is available from Adobe. If you want to bring your laptop and do not have the program installed, download and install the trial version before the class at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ . Look for the “All Product Trials” button on the download page and go down to the  “Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Macintosh” selection. Those with earlier versions of Photoshop Elements will only have some of the functions that will be demonstrated.



Reservations are required for this class. PTSLUG will send out an email announcement of the class to which you can RSVP to Joy Bland: joysdg1945@yahoo.com . Please wait for the email then specify: 1- Your full name, 2-  Whether you want a desktop computer or laptop position, and 3- indicate if you are willing to share a computer. Couples/friends are encouraged to share a computer when space is limited.



The computer Lab has nine computers and 4 laptop spaces, After those positions are filled, a waiting list will be started in case a vacancy occur. Paid-up members will be given first priority, then members of the public. If after receiving a confirmation, you are unable attend please let Joy know as soon as possible so we can offer your space to someone else. Those who need to cancel and do not let us know 24 hours in advance will lose their priority in future workshops.



As always, this workshop is free.

Support files for the class:

Guided Edit Mode Instructions PDF

Guided Edit Mode Photos

Panorama Instructions

Panorama Photos

The photos for these tutorials are compressed. After you download them, double click the .zip file to uncompress the folder.

Free Workshop on Pages
Friday, October 17 at 7 PM. WSU Computer Lab, Port Hadlock

The October Mac Programs SIG will be a continuation of last month's session presented by Francesca Drum. This series of classes covers the basics of Pages, from Apple's iWork '08. This second session will include graphics and text boxes. The lesson will review enough of September’s SIG to enable all to participate, even if they did not attend last month's SIG.

WSU installed Pages from iWork ’08 on their computers last month, so this will be a hands-on workshop. A free 30-day trial version of iWork ’08 is available from Apple. If you want to bring your laptop, download and install the trial version before the class at www.apple.com/iwork/trial/) . If your trial version has expired, you will need to reserve a computer position - or purchase iWork ’08. Those with iWork ’06 will only have some of the functions we will be using.

Students should download both the September and October PDF class notes and bring printed copies to class. Four of the files are already posted under the  notice for the September 19 SIG below. The October handouts will be available on the PT SLUG web site the week of the class. No handouts will be available at the class.

Reservations are required for this class. RSVP to Francesca Drum: fdrum@olympus.net . Please specify: 1- Your full name, 2-  Whether you want a computer or laptop position, and 3- Please indicate if you are willing to share a computer. Couples/friends are encouraged to share a computer when space is limited.

The computer Lab has nine computers and 4 laptop spaces, After those positions are filled, a waiting list will be started in case a vacancy occur. Paid-up members will be given first priority, then members of the public. If after receiving a confirmation, you are unable attend please let Francesca know as soon as possible so we can offer your space to someone else. Those who need to cancel and do not let us know 24 hours in advance will lose their priority in future workshops.

As always, this workshop is free.

Computer Security for All of US

Learn more about how to keep your computer safe and how to avoid hackers, viruses, trojan horses, worms and more. Jim Manderscheid has more than 30 years of experience in micro-electronics as a design engineer. He has also been an Apple Value Added Retailer and operates Strait Up Mac in Sequim, which offers Mac training, repairs, installations, diagnostics, IT security and more.

Topics to be covered: Practicing safe computing on any operating system, setting up user accounts for security, setting up a firewall, viruses, trojan horses and worms, Mac anti-Virus applications, information on the latest viruses, email filters, common sense web surfing and more.

This will be a joint meeting with the Mac Computer Group, which is part of the Port Ludlow Computer Club.

The public is welcome.

Thursday, October 9
7:00 p.m.
Tri Area Community Center Chimacum

Our next PTSLUG Macintosh Programs Workshop (Special Interest Group or SIG) will be on Friday, September 19th, 7 PM, in the WSU computer lab. There is no charge for workshop

For the September class Francesca Drum will discuss the main features of Pages, Apple’s word processing program that is part of iWork ’06 and ’08. WSU has acquired iWork ‘ 08 including the new Pages ’08 and has installed the software on all computers in the lab. There will hands-on practice during the class, so those who bring their own laptops will need to have some version of Pages installed. iWork ’08 is available as a free 30-day trial from Apple. (If you don’t have it on your laptop, download and install the trial version before the class at www.apple.com/iwork/trial/) Questions are welcome.

This workshop (SIG) is available to the general public as well as PTSLUG members. However, we do give priority to PTSLUG members. Join us from 7 to 9 PM on Friday, September 19th at the WSU NOP computer lab in the Shold Business Park off Rhody Drive in Port Hadlock. Since there are only 9 iMacs in the lab, those with laptops are encouraged to bring them. There are four spaces available for those with laptops. If you plan to attend you must let Bob Snow know via email, so he can reserve a place for you. Bob can be contacted at sherman101@mac.com.

Prior to the workshop Francesca Drum’s notes will be posted on the PTSLUG website for participants to download, print and bring to the class. Watch for it on the home page of the web site at www.ptslug.org.

Important Note: In some of the earlier workshops so many people attended that the computer room was very crowded. We have had to limit the number of attendees to 9 people for the desktop computer space and 4 people bringing their own laptops. Please tell us which type of computer you will be using. If you are a couple and can both use the same computer please let us know as well. This will free up one space for another attendee. When we reach the limit on space available (9 and 4) we will put any additional attendees on a standby list. If after receiving a confirmation, if you are unable attend please let Bob know as soon as possible so we can offer your space to someone else. Those who need to cancel and do not let us know 24 hours in advance will lose their priority in future workshops.

Class Notes PDFs

• Class Notes
• Tool Bar
• Format Bars
• Inspector

PT SLUG General Meeting

A day in the life of an information junkie

Find out how a true information junkie runs his Mac. From searching to organizing the found information, learn learn about simple and inexpensive or free tools and techniques for dealing with information. Also, we'll cover some simple web safety techniques and provide lists of resources.

Thursday, September  11
7:00 p.m.
Tri Area Community Center