7:30pm – 10pm
We now have an official ACAMUG Twitter account! If you add “acamug” to the list of Twitter users you are following you will get tweets whenever something new is posted on the front page of our web site.
For those who haven’t discovered Twitter yet, it is a free “micro-blogging” service. After joining you can post “tweets” of up to 140 characters which other Twitter users can see and respond to.
Visit the Twitter site for more info.
With minimal hoopla Apple has updated their iMac, Mac mini and MacBook lines and replaced the Mighty Mouse with the new multi-touch enabled Magic Mouse.
Tablet Rumors Getting Pretty Specific
Posted 09/30/2009 at 6:44:38pm |
by J Keirn-Swanson
Fatigued of tablet rumors yet? Some of us are. Then something comes along that really jazzes us up.
At first these whispers started out rather vague, with conflicting sizes and hardware specs, but as the year closes out specifics are starting to coalesce. Is it a secret too big to keep or is it the bandwagon of rumor-mongering? Only time will tell. While we wait, let’s follow along.
To start with, according to a source with a track record for reliability, iLounge is reporting that the 7″ screen is out and the 10.7″ version is in. This confirms what others have been reporting for the last month or so and corresponds to Apple’s past history of making multiple iterations of a product during development, deselecting versions with time and testing.
It’s time for some changes here at ACAMUG.org and I’d like to hear from the members about what you want to see. Ideas that I’ve been tossing around include the return of discussion forums and more member contributed content. I’m talking about beyond just posting news items on the front page. I mean, for example, an area where any member can create a How To on whatever Mac related topic strikes their fancy. Live chats a la the old AOL forums might even be possible.
But I want to make sure that people will actually use the new stuff, so I’m starting the discussion with this post. Add your comments about what you like and don’t like about the current site and what you’d like to be able to see and do through the site that you can’t do now. And I’d really love to see more than just basic suggestions like “add forums”. Think about how you’d like them to work. How they should look. What you could do with them. Describe it in words or make some sketches, however you think you can get the idea across. But start the ball rolling with a short comment about your idea on this post.
I don’t have a definite time frame for this but I’d like to get an idea of the scope of the final result so I can begin marshaling resources.
Let’s start talking folks.
Another ACAMUG tradition, bring your brief Mac related tricks to show the rest of the group and you’ll get a treat!
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.