Welcome to the new Boise Mac User's Group webiste. We're still settling in and things will be changing a bit as we go.
July 14th Meeting
Greetings Boise Mac User Group,
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Independence Day.
This month I thought is would be nice to take a step back and structure the meeting around the members. Therefor for the July meeting I thought it would be nice to have a question and answer session, but also include tips and cool stuff found. With that please bring any and all questions. If you want a demonstration on programs such as iMovie, iPhoto, iWork, iTunes or any iThing this will be a good chance for you to get the help of fellow members.
Customize an existing Automator Service
From Mactips.info comes this video tutorial explaining how to take an existing "Service" and change it a bit to suit your own preferences.
CUPS and my printer
Thanks to Ron for this, via the list...
Point your browser to http://localhost:631/
Free video for new Mac users
The excellent ScreenCastsOnline (to which I subscribe) is this week offering a hefty (that is, substantial) video podcast covering a lot of ground that would be very useful for new Mac users, whether they be recent switchers or folks who just haven't had a chance to dig around in all that the Mac offers as yet.
Don always has a useful broadcast (it's one of my few "must watch" video podcasts) so take a peek at this free show and if you like it, consider
iCal tip for tasks you won't forget
If you're worried that iCal's little alert will get missed while you're working on something else, if it's really a critical task that has to happen right at a certain time, check out this brief YouTube video tip from Mac Tips on setting an unmissable iCal task reminder.
Festive Dec. meeting covered lots of ground
Thanks to Lauren for most of the notes:
As most of you know, last night was the first official meeting with our new presidents.
JT presided over this meeting, and I would like to be the first to say "Thank You".
Imports to iTunes leave out information?
Is your iTunes a mess? Imports not carry song or artist info and a list view have more gaps and holes than swiss cheese? This application (which I've not yet tried) may help bring order to your iTunes plagued with partial song information.
If anyone gives it a try, please do report your experience in the comments.
iPhone apps: a list of 50, and a warning
Spotted this past week, this list of 50 very interesting free and for-sale iPhone apps for web designers and developers. Have perused several times.
Also, over at the Register, a reminder that some apps can come as wolves in sheep's clothing, so always purchase responsibly and after researching.
Apple moves beyond iTunes...?
On both Twitter and our mailing list there's mention of Apple's purchase of LaLa, most recently a music sharing in-the-cloud (internet only) service. Here's a NYT article detailing the high points.
I remember just a few years back when LaLa was a sort of kludgy (to my mind) way to pass along physical CDs you were tired of.
HP fails with Mac 10.6 scanner drivers (4570c)
I've not even upgraded to Snow Leopard as yet (had a long list of tidying and back-up tasks I wanted to do first, in between work) but as I am having trouble (on 10.5.8) in getting my scanner (HP 4570c) to be recognized (keeps crashing unexpectedly when I try and launch the HP scanner software) I started Googling around.
On HP's site, it's pretty apparent that HP has no interest in continuing support for Mac users of 4570c scanjet.
That thread links to an Read more