JANUARY 2008 www.limac.org
NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP
LIMac was estab- lished in 1984, when December’s Meeting January’s Meeting the Mac was intro- MacSpeech, makers of iListen speech recog- Have you upgraded to duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for membership nition software, was scheduled to give the Leopard yet? Have you had P.O. Box 2048 are $36. (The first presentation for December. Unfortunately, JANUARY a chance to delve into all Seaford, NY meeting is free.) they could not make it due to weather. Apple’s purported 300 new 11783-0180 For information, In spite of that, the meeting was great features in Leopard? Do President contact any of the fun. Bradley did an extended Q&A in which you even know if Leopard Bill Medlow following: he answered many questions aboutLeopard . 11 will run on your current [email protected] Membership There were also quite a few questions about hardware? No matter how Vice President Donald Hennessy the new iMacs. In addition people asked you answered any of those George Canellis (516) 541-3186 about other new software such as Adobe questions you’re going to get your chance to [email protected] [email protected] Creative Suite 3, and, the various flavors of see Mac OS X 10.5 put through its paces at this Treasurer Technical Advice virtualization software, such as Parallels month’s meeting. Tom Abruzzo and Rick Donald Hennessy Bradley Dichter Desktop, and VMware’s Fusion for the Mac. Johnson from the Walt Whitman Apple Store [email protected] (631) 348-4772 After the Q&A, we had the raffle and our will be here to show you what Leopard can do Secretary [email protected] annual holiday party. People enjoyed the and how it can benefit you and add to your Bernie Flicker Program various goodies available and got a chance enjoyment of using your Macintosh, whether for [email protected] Coordinator to spend some time talking and exchanging work, play, school or all of those. The LIMac Forum : Rick Matteson ideas with other members. We don’t get Of course, the meeting will open with Editors/Graphics rgmlimac Mo Lebowitz @optonline.net to do this too often, so this was a pleasant Bradley’s Q&A (with MacBasics’ own beginner’s Loretta Lebowitz Photoshop SIG change of pace. Members got chance to tell Q&A across the hall) and will wind up with our others about their new hardware and soft- monthly raffle followed by our SIG meetings. [email protected] Brian Revere [email protected] [email protected] ware acquisitions, and in turn other members If you want to see what’s new in Mac OS X (516) 997-5370 were able to get firsthand feedback on those 10.5, this meeting’s for you. See you there. 0 Board of Directors: MacBasic SIG items which would aid them in making –Rick Matteson Rick Matteson Geoff Broadhurst future purchases. (See Photos on Page 3) (Program Coordinator) Albert Zygier [email protected] LIMac membership for 2008 is under way! Since there was no presentation, I will Geoff Broadhurst Multimedia SIG use this space to talk about another product As a volunteer run organization with no paid George Canellis Al Zygier made by the company of a previous presenter, staff, we rely on our membership dues to pay Al Choy [email protected] SmileOnMyMac. Their labeling application, expenses such as insurance and $1820 to NYIT Donald Hennessy Produced using: DiscLabel, is one of the bestCD/ DV D label- for a year’s use of the meeting facility in 2007 Bradley Dichter Tex-Edit Plus, making programs I have seen. Its flexibility and 2008. (Technical Director) TextSpresso, is amazing. You can wrap text around the Bring your $36 check made out to LIMac Scott Randell Adobe’s InDesign, circular shape of the disc in an unlimited and save us 82¢ in billing costs!0 Bernie Flicker Photoshop, Illustrator, number of ways. You can choose one of the Bill Medlow and Acrobat. included templates (DiscLabel includes lots General meeting time schedule: Harold Silvers Brian Revere Fonts