Archives for October, 2006

Google’s Mac Software Page

Google has a new look for the Mac Downloads section of their web site featuring links to download Mac specific Google related applications:

• Google Earth
• Google SketchUp
• Google Widgets
• Google Notifier
• Google Toolbar
• Picasa Web Albums Uploader

Google Earth we’ve already seen demoed but anyone interested in 3D should take a look at SketchUp, a 3D modeling application designed for ease of use.

And there is also an Official Google Mac Blog!

GooTube?

Google has also officially announced their purchase of YouTube, the most popular video sharing service on the Net. YouTube has quickly become the unofficial Net repository for just about any video content you can imagine, from current virals to video journals, old TV shows and concert footage.

Much of the commercial content has probably been uploaded without permission from the owners of the rights to the videos so it remains to be seen what will happen to that once Google takes over. Let’s hope they find a way to preserve it rather than purge it.

The Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group will be holding theirAutumn meeting at noon on October 28th in Philly at the Manyunk Brewing Company. The PPUG was founded by Jason O’Grady who also runs the popular and informative PowerPage web site. Here are the details:

Would you kindly forward this announcement to members of your users group if you are a member of a Mac User Group and invite your friends and colleagues as well:

PPUG (Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group) will hold it’s 2006 Autumn meeting on Saturday, October 28th. The meeting will take place from noon to 3pm at the Manyunk Brewing Company. We usually have lunch (or a brew) while we talk mobile computing. Jason O’Grady (founder of PPUG and PowerPage.org) will be on hand to talk about new Macs and iPods, Leopard, and the latest mobile computing news; sidekicks Bob Snow and Rob Parker will join us to give us their take on the latest happenings in the world of Macintosh and Apple. Topics will include the new Macs, iPods, iTunes 7 and movies, gadgets, and a question-answer period. Feel free to bring items to sell or swap as well.

Join us for a great meeting, and it’s free — open to all and your guests.

   Manyunk Brewing Company
   4120 Main Street
   Philadelphia, PA 19127
   215.482.8220

For information and directions go to: http://www.ppug.net/

Thanks

David Berg

Topic

A Demonstration of Recosoft’s PDF Conversion Applications

Presenters

Paul Chadha of Recosoft

When

Friday October 13th 2006, 7:30pm – 10pm

Where

Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus

Have you ever received a pdf file that you wish you could extract data from? At our October meeting Paul Chadha will present a demo of Recosoft’s PDF conversion programs which allow you to open PDF documents in MS Word. to extract text or images. You can also convert the the PDF to PowerPoint or Word format. There are three versions available for purchase. Visit their website (http://www.recosoft.com/) for further information.

Products: PDF2Office Personal: Macintosh Version - PDF to Word

PDF2Office Standard forms paragraphs, applies styles, regroups independent graphics elements, extracts images; creates tables; processes headers/footers, endnotes/footnotes and columns/sections automatically - without any intervention.

PDF2Office Standard also provides options for converting or extracting data from a range of pages in a PDF document. You can extract text or images, or convert the entire document to the Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Word format.

PDF2Office Standard enables you to recover the data stored in PDF documents - making them available for use by anyone. Since PDF2Office Personal is a plug-in for Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Word, it is not necessary to acquire and install additional PDF editing software and tools resulting in huge cost savings in both time and expense.

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.