Topic

The Annual Wi-Fi Picnic

When

Friday, July 10th, 7:30pm – 10pm

Who

Everyone!

Where

Jason and Bea’s Backyard

The annual ACAMUG summer picnic will be held on Friday July 10th starting at 7:30 pm. Once again, we will be holding the picnic in Jason and Bea’s backyard. While you are free to bring the covered dish or munchie of your choice we have put together a suggestion list to ensure diversity:

If you are interested in coming, please either post a comment on this entry or send an email to Bill at president at acamug dot org. Please also let us know what you will be bringing. Directions will be sent to the known e-mail address of ACAMUG members attending.

Hope to see you there, Bill Dickhardt President

Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.

Plug your iPhone into your Mac, launch iTunes and check for updates on the iPhone summary page and you should be greeted with the news that the new iPhone OS 3.0 is now available for download!

Well, at least you can download it now. I can’t update at the moment because Apple’s activation servers have melted under the load of early updaters.

This update is free for iPhone users but iPod touch will have to pay $9.95 for it.

Highlights from the 2009 Apple WorldWide Developers Conference keynote:

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Topic

WWDC ‘09 & a Few Hidden Gems

When

Friday, June 12th, 7:30pm – 10pm

Who

Bill Dickhardt, Carolyn Patterson

Where

Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus

We’ll discuss the new announcements and revelations hot off the presses from this week’s Apple WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC) held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We should learn full details including release dates for both iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 a.k.a. “Snow Leopard” and there are sure to be accompanying hardware announcements. New iPhones seem likely but updated Mac hardware may debut as well.

Also on the agenda are demos of three “hidden gems”, apps you’ve probably never heard of but that are worth a look:

Folder Icon Maker - A shareware application that allows you to create custom folder icons for use in the Finder.

Computer Glasses - An application that selectively magnifies parts of the screen for easier viewing

Airfoil (and Airfoil Speakers for iPhone) - An application that allows you to stream any audio from your Mac to another computer, an Airport Express or an iPhone / iPod Touch.

Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.

Apple has just released the latest minor update to Mac OS X 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard”. Tagged as version 10.5.7 it includes various general OS fixes as well as updates to iCal, Mail, Parental Controls and Printing.

The update is available via Software Update in the Apple menu or, our preferred method, by downloading the 10.5.7 Combo Updater.

• About the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update
• Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update

Also available via Software Update is Safari 3.2.3 as well as Security Update 2009-002 for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”.

[ADDED 2009-05-13 10am]

It appears a few upgraders, myself included (see the first comment,) are experiencing problems with the 10.5.7 update including stuck in the blue startup screen (what happened to me) as well as loss of some of the previous screen resolutions. No idea how widespread these problems may be so make sure your important files have been backed up and you might want to consider waiting for the dust to settle before upgrading mission critical machines.

FYI: I upgraded three Macs, two Intel and one PowerPC, all using the Combo Updater and experienced a problem on one of them.