Welcome (35
members in attendance; 3 new members
signed up)
Announcements:
Please
visit the ECU-MUG
Store and buy
something to help the group cover basic
meeting costs.
Student Stores has 3 demo Macs for
sale (17-inch PowerBook G4 $2499; iMac
17-inch $1599; iBook 800 MHz for $1199
with Airport).
Student
Stores will be having more iPod
Demo Days this week and next. Try
'em out!
MS
Entourage 10.1.4 should allow Mac
users to use it as their primary
Exchange client at ECU. Unfortunately,
the e-mail system on campus is
not ready for Entourage 10.1.4,
so I do not recommend it.
Plans
are being discussed to have a on-campus,
brief Mac/ECU-MUG meeting in the
afternoons once/month. Please fill
out the poll on the ECU-MUG main
web page to cast your vote (only
if you are a ECU person).
Plans
are being discussed on whether
the ECU-MUG might broadcast its
meetings on local cable stations
(live or pre-recorded). We are
also looking to have the School
of Communication students produce
a 1/2 hour Mac-related show for
TV broadcast. More info on this
as it is developed.
Mac
Update: the following are items that
are related to Apple, the Mac community,
or other similar of-interest developments:
Presentation/Demonstration:
ECU-MUG President, Mike Dixon, gives
presentation
and demonstration of Movie
Maestro ($49), a soundtrack creation
software program that integrates with
or without iMovie to create seamless
movie music for your projects.A presentation
and demonstration of getting a video
to iDVD
3.0.1 starts. Topics covered include:
Hardware
needed
Making
the best DVD possible: looping music,
drop zones, sensible menus
Giveaways:
One winner won a copy of Movie Maestro;
one winner won the complete collection
of iDVDThemePAK's 6-volume iDVD theme
set; one winner received a copy of
XPlay (software for older iPods to
work with Windows); one winner won
a copy of iDVDThemes.com Volume 1
set of iDVD themes.
This meeting
was not video-taped.
using
a combination of Claris HomePage, Dreamweaver 4, Photoshop 6.01, GraphicConverter,
ButtonBuilder Extreme, and NavBar Builder 1.5.
ECU-MUG
is listed with Microsoft's user group support division (click link for
Microsoft Mac product info):