Archives for December, 2006

Topic

Our Annual Holiday Party

When

Friday December 8th 2006, 7pm – 10pm

Where

Jason & Bea’s Home, NOT AT ACCC!

Another ACAMUG tradition continues! Bring along an appetizer, entree or desert as we chat about the events of the year and look ahead to the next. If you’re lucky you might win Burning Monkey Solitaire or Wingnuts 2, both courtesy of the fine folks at Freeverse, or a brand spanking new 2nd generation iPod Shuffle!

Jason and Bea have volunteered the use of their home this year, directions will be forthcoming. Expect a visit from the Ghost of Macs Past as Jason breaks out some of his ever-expanding collection of “vintage” machines.

And since lots of folks will be thinking about gifts, let us know about that great game, handy application or must-have tech toy you’ve discovered.

If possible please mention what you plan to bring as a comment to this post so we know what’s covered and what isn’t.

The directions have been emailed, if you haven’t received a copy you can download them directly from this link.

A few years ago the guys who create the gamer oriented web comic Penny Arcade! created an amazing charity called Child’s Play which donates new toys, games, books and other goodies for use by sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world. To date they’ve donated over a million dollars in items and 100% of the donations including the cash go directly to the hospitals, everyone involved donates their time and effort.

This year a group of Mac developers have decided to donate all proceeds from the sales of their software on Thursday, December 7th to Child’s Play.

So, while you’re checking the site for details about the party on Friday take a minute to head on over to Child’s Play Day by Mike Zornek to check out the links for the participating developers and products. I suspect you’ll find application you never knew existed that you can really use. SlingShot looks like it does something I’ve been wanting for a long time: synchronize data and iTunes playlists between my Macs.

Buy yourself an early holiday gift and somewhere you’ll make a sick child’s hospital stay a little bit happier.