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As a quick aside, I'll mention that Lauren (our Treasurer) posted to the list that November's meeting was pretty monumental, what with the changing of the guard with our president(s). But we also had a local company share their FIN, a product that they make for Mac laptops. As Lauren put it,

They raffled off a couple of their products which is an All-In-One Handle and Stand designed specifically for the many of the Mac laptop models. Please visit their website and check it out.

First, a big round of applause to our retiring President. For the past number of years we've had Co-presidents, to spread the joy and the work around, but for the past good while Rik Halsteen has been serving on his own with nary a wimper and a really great spirit and we thank him heartily for all he's done for BoiseMacs. Now: the exciting news is that we have three new Co-presidents! A welcoming round of applause to Marcia Yiapan, JT Ray, and Ron Adams.

Much-appreciated forward from our friend in the northern environs (ie: McCall): Listing with links and details of those applications that work with the next version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, which releases...today!

There are classes in September, October, and November scheduled covering working with your Mac and working with digital images. They're conducted by Mark Winchester, a regularly contributing presenter at BoiseMacs. Classes include Mastering Mac OSX, Discovering Apple's iPhoto, Working with Digital Images, Photoshop: Hands-on series, How to sell well on eBay, How to choose a camera. For more details, read on.

Rik reports: Hi all yes it's that time again tomorrow night the monthly Boise Macs Meeting. This month JT will teach us how to make back up a copy of your commercially produced DVD's. We will also have some time to answer your Mac related questions, share things your doing with your Mac, have a great time visiting and doing Pat's favorite thing EAT. So see you tomorrow night, meeting starts at 7 PM at the Meridian Fuddruckers, Eagle Rd and Ustick.

Our scheduled demo of Scopebox will occur at our August 12 meeting. Gerry needed to postpone due to family obligations. We'll have a regular "no presenter" type meeting for July with Q&A and freeform sharing of Mac info. In the meantime, see if any of these 25 free Mac apps "that will boost your productivity" sound useful to you.

If you're interested in working in video on your Mac -- or just like to see what's possible -- you're invited to this (next) month's July monthly BoiseMacs meeting where Gerry will be exploring ScopeBox software. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, so July 8 is the date to iCal. See our meetings page for more details. BoiseMacs members have access to special offers and privileges, but our meetings are always open to all our local Treasure Valley Mac friends.